The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Some meat and fish has sneaked in from my pre-vegetarian days. I had my first Krispy Kreme doughnut about three months ago. I am very unlikely to ever try the alcohol drinks not scored through but I have no objection to them. Carob chips and Lapsang souchong should have their own “tried once” marker.

And thanks to Bob who made the theme on which this is based.

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I don’t think the USA were going to win anyway but this second card for Boxx certainly ended any chances of them beating Brazil. What made me cry (yes, cry) was Cristiane’s behaviour. She must have known that she wasn’t fouled but that didn’t prevent her from holding up two fingers to indicate a supposed second offence and then celebrating. Celebrating! Well, that says goodbye to the sexist nonsense that women footballers are more sporting than the men.

Come on, Germany.

My sister and her husband celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary today while my mum and dad celebrated their 50th in January. My sister and her girlfriend have been together 16 years while for Andy and me it’s 17 years. That’s over 100 years of bliss or something like that.

Originally uploaded by umzw

Based on these words:
* sex (17x)
* dead (13x)
* hell (6x)
* kill (5x)
* bitch (4x)
* pain (3x)
* gay (2x)
* fucking (1x)

Happy mother’s day…thank you on Vimeo

An amazing six years ago!

Very expensive for visitors though.

I don’t want to wear a red poppy: the British Legion supports servicemen and not the civilians who gave their lives in munitions factories, shipyards, coal mines and their own homes and I want to remember them too.

The White Poppy seems to be a better alternative or just quiet inner reflection.