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White Russian Doll, the latest single by my slight obsession and favourite independent band, Lucky Soul, has been voted Record of the Week on my favourite radio programme, Radcliffe and Maconie.

From the latest Lucky Soul email:

Thank you, thank you and thank you again to everyone who voted for ‘White Russian Doll’ for the ‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’ Single of the Week slot on Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie’s BBC Radio 2 show. We’ll be on every night this week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/the-radcliffe-and-maconie-show/

You can now hear ‘Cryin in the Morning’ the rousing b-side to ‘WRD’ on our myspace and order the digital bundle here: www.itunes.com/luckysoul/whiterussiandoll-single Why not write a review while you’re there?

And barring ill fortune or injury we’ll be in session on Absolute Radio, on the Geoff Lloyd show on Feburary 2nd.

I thought I was too old to be thrilled when ’small’ bands I love get picked up on national radio, but I’m not – I’m chuffed to pieces for the band.

(Yes, I’m aware that, at the time of writing, the video is spilling outside this post’s container. I still need to tweak the design here.) 20/1: Fixed by not relying on the WordPress auto-embed function.

Homemade Bouillon Recipe – 101 Cookbooks

As Heidi Swanson, author of 101 Cookbooks, says:

I’m not sure why this never occurred to me, but until I [read the recipe], it hadn’t.

This is a tweaked version of a recipe from the River Cottage Preserves Handbook. I’ll be giving it a go soon but wanted to put the link up now.

It’s time to bring together the various blogs and online entities I have scattered around the web.

I won’t bore you with the reasons why, and why the blogs were created as separate entities anyway. I just wanted to let you know, partly because it may take a few days or weeks to sort out the design. Not that you care if you read this by RSS anyway.

Today was another leftovers day. Rice unused from yesterday was put in the wok, along with some egg, spring onions and king prawns, seasoned with sesame oil and soy sauce, to make fried rice.

Lunch was just a carton of pea and ham soup.

Little star, so you had to go.
You must have wanted him to know.
You must have wanted the world to know.
Poor little thing.
Now they know.