A mistake as vast as the sky, but, mercifully, as intangible.

[alexsarll]

So I managed to bolt another chunk on to my mindmap of London; now I know how Holland Park connects to Ladbroke Grove to Portobello Road to Notting Hill to Kensington to Hyde Park, which brings me back to the fields I know. Holland Park has an awful lot of private squares, doesn't it? I have always thought of these as little enchanted kingdoms, and today I (legitimately) had lunch in one - not a Western one, one near Regent's Park. Lovely as it was, it was disappointingly like a smaller, neater, slightly quieter park, and entirely devoid of waiters with champagne, gambolling nymphs or anything which would quite pass muster as a grotto.

Could this be the worst book ever? Touched by Evil: The True Story of the Psychic Powers That Saved Me from a Life of Abuse.

Sainsbury's have started doing what is effectively quarter-skimmed milk, with orange caps, for those who find skimmed too watery and semi-skimmed too fattening. I suspect this is somewhat pointless, yet still strangely brilliant in a decadent late-capitalism sort of way.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

quarter skimmed? super.. as i tend to mix semi skimmed and skimmed together !! i'm off to the supermarket tonight yee haw!

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Either you've got a fond uncle working high in their dairy secretariat, or there are millions like you.

[(Anonymous)]

>Either you've got a fond uncle working high in their dairy >secretariat, or there are millions like you.

no what it is right, is i've been tryign to wean myself on to skimmed milk for yonks and just. cant.manage. it.. so i tend to mix it with semi and thats ok, i newed the less fat version but i love milk and skimmed is just too.. watery for me.. i can just about get the ba;lance right but now,good old sainsburys have taken all the hard work out of it for me.. woo hoo

[(Anonymous)]

need. i need the less fat version cos i need to lose some weight.. sob

[miss-sheldon.livejournal.com]

I saw that last week! Not sure about the use of the colour orange though. I like skimmed milk myself, which is 0.1% fat or something. I thought the orange milk was lower than that at first and I got all excited. Still, I suppose it's a good idea. Probably would have been better to have a milk between semi and full fat as it's harder for people to go from one to the other. Once you get to semi, the move to skimed isn't so bad.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Orange did seem a bit close to red for clarity's sake...but then I can't really think what other colour would be more distinct, without being too showy.

[dignam.livejournal.com]

Over here in America we have a brand called SkimPlus, with a kind of purple cap, which is more or less the same thing -- and which I find completely ideal, as I'm lactose-intolerant but equally sickened by pouring what amounts to white water on my cornflakes.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Just so long as there's no form of international exchange scheme for them, because orange and purple caps next to each other - that wouldn't be good.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

I was brought up on semi-skimmed, but can't stand skimmed milk at all. Full-fat milk is fine on cereal, but I'm not particularly fond of drinking it (and I used to drink a lot of milk. However the adverts lied. I'm not even good enough to play for Accrington Stanley)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Ditto and ditto - do you think we have a case in law?

[moleintheground.livejournal.com]

Get a bike, Alex. It's a fully awesome way of connecting all of london up in your nog.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Bikes are a bit too arterial, a bit too big-picture for my taste. You can't meander on a bike, or at least not safely.