L'Argent’s blog

What America is Good For - Smores!

2008-04-23T14:57:58Z

As well as blessing us with the drunken little pixie that is Kirsten Borst, American has come up trumps on it's sheer innovation in the culinary world. Never has a country managed to think of so many uses of sugar as has America. We are all pret...

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Regional Fashion Phenomena

2008-04-23T13:26:54Z

When it comes to fashion, you wouldn't think there was much room for stylistic variation on an island as small as little old Blighty, but you would indeed be mistaken. Geography, and science and all that shiz dictates that the further a pl...

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Delia, Brits and Headaches

2008-02-22T14:26:53Z

Another week passed, and all I am left with is a brimming inbox of confusing emails, a small list of gripes and a headache. I have had a headache, on and off since Monday night, and I am incredibley displeased by it. Copious anadins, Neurofens a...

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You Can Have all the Cool Clothes, But Can't Always Please the Cool Kids

2008-02-20T16:04:45Z

“The thing about Abdul, right, is that he’s got all these cool trainers but he’s got weird feet…banana feet. So they just end up looking weird on him. Know what I mean?” “Yeeeah, clown feet.”

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'Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking' Champions Laziness. Could the 'Delia Effect' be Damaging?

2008-02-19T14:02:40Z

I have never been a fan of Delia Smith. A cookbook should offer you creative alternatives to what you could think of yourself, but there has always seemed to me to be something dull, stale, and uninspiring about Delia's books. When the patronisin...

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The Fleece - Ultimate Crime to Fashion - Uniform of the Middle-aged Woman

2008-02-18T14:00:44Z

If you go to the website for any popular outdoor wear brand, you will be bombarded with images of all sorts of strenuous outdoor activities. Biking, mountain climbing, tight roping between cliffs whilst balancing a flame thrower on your head. You...

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Curry - The Most Wonderful Food in the World!

2008-02-17T19:31:13Z

It is not often that you can visit a restaurant, and the very next day, fancy going to the same type of restaurant again, but I find that eating curry only reminds me of how much I love it, and makes me want to eat even more curry. I have often h...

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Cheating on your Wife? At least you can distract her with a cheap car!

2008-02-14T14:51:45Z

When I walked onto the platform at Holland Park tube station last week, I was confronted by a ten foot picture of a man's smug face, mindlessly gurning back at me. 'I don't like that man's face', I thought to myself, then went back to innocently ...

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Tricked into Starting a Blog. Vox = Sneaky

2008-02-14T14:07:01Z

Today I was innocently perusing the blog of a fellow Laura, and decided to add a nugget of wisdom regarding the necessity of the 'Mind the Gap' message on the tube, from which Johnny Foreigner derives so much amusment. (I once saw a man fall dow...

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