Yes! Finally! And very very happy with it I am too.

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Worked really really well this time, although I think the chicken was a little dry in the larger chunks – maybe I’ll try more of a shredded approach next time. Or possibly just not cook it for quite so long. I guess using the thigh fillets the recipe specifies overcomes this (rather than breast meat) but I hate thighs – yes, they’re tastier, but then you have to content with the horrible chunks of fat (blech – chicken fat is disgusting) and the nasty sinewy bits. Still, flavour was good and the boy went back for seconds, so I guess it was OK.

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Now onto the toe decreases, then there’s just the Kitchenering and weaving-in of ends to go and the socks will be complete – woo!

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which has been sitting around from LoveFilm for about 2 months now. Leonard Bernstein, as previously known, was a genius.

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I’ve ordered in a hardcover copy of the Rothko exhibition catalogue cos there’s a couple of articles in there I want to read which sound like they might be relevant to the piece I want to write (and they were selling the hardcover version for the price of the paperback because they’ve sold out of both and are recalling some hardcover ones from the US and will post to me for free. Oh, and I got 10% off too for being a member ), and bought some Rothko postcards too to stick up on my wall and remind me what I’m working from. And found The Dada Reader in the Tate book sale – £4 down from about £17, plus 10% off again. Yay! Goodness only knows where I’m going to put this immense library of visual art books I’m accumulating, but I’ll worry about that when I get to it.

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Because once definitely wasn’t enough. Twice even isn’t enough, but I doubt they’d let me take any of the Seagram murals home and they for-sure wouldn’t fit on my walls if I did!

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Resulting in a new resolution: to be more selfish and spend more on myself

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At this rate I may be road-testing them by Friday – woo!

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… in the form of my very first eBay bid – up to £5 for 2 volumes of Köhler flute studies – to buy myself a flute of some description (Muramatsu if the Euro Millions win comes through short-term, student flute otherwise) before my parents visit in May. After 3 years of procrastinating, it’s time to take action!

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and have started the gusset decreases on my sock – not long to go now!

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