…bottle…I remember the days when you said you couldn't drink that much :P

Sous-vide chicken breast, pearl barley, raw red bell pepper, homemade teriyaki sauce.

Pretty successful.

With a nice Terlan Sauvignon blanc.

Not sure how much "if"-room you have with something as significant as vet bills, and lumping them in with everything else included under the "whatever" group might be too well received.

At least that's how I'd feel if I were fostering a pet. But I know that years of drowning in linguistics has given me a different perspective.

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If they didn't limit it, someone would upload all their photos as text.

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Having actually been to a couple of the typical tourist traps in Paris, those sound amazing for the location. My favourite meals have been in hotel restaurants, next to a train station, in a gentrifying neighbourhood, etc.

No one who lives in Paris actually hangs around the tower unless they have money to give away. :P

None of them, actually.

These last few years, I've had various ideas, and have noted down a lot of them, but never really took the time to develop them. Daily non-academic writing will be hard for the next few months, unfortunately, since academic writing will take up most of the available time. And writing fiction is possibly even more challenging than academic research…

I do believe in a few weeks I'll be organising the wine list for one of my best friends' sister's wedding.

Scary doesn't begin to describe it. 3 days of dinners and celebration, extended family, friends, anyone who can come…Indian-North American fusion.

Wonder what the budget will be…

The best restaurants in Newcastle [theculturetrip.com] loses all credibility the moment you see that some of their photos come from…Shutterstock…and have only thematic relation to the article itself.

Incredible.

Awesome. Coincidentally I also started again a few days ago, after a few years' hiatus…