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Archive for April, 2007
the mystery of the backwards N

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } “Rodina” means family, roughly, in Czech. Lots of gravestones are marked “Family Blahblah”. Anyway, I’m puzzled as to why rodina Hajkova fancied having their N backwards. It’s a Cyrillic letter, but Czech doesn’t use Cyrillic letters (and it’s [...]

gunne fay sally sax

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } It’s funny. Sally Fay looks very good in those sorts of dresses but I would rather run a mile than wear them. No prairie revival for Essex girls.

confessions of a false-eyelash-wearing photo girl

Jack & Hill: A Beauty Blog are using this photograph of mine to illustrate a post about false eyelashes (of course). They didn’t ask first (sigh) but my trusty spies found it for me and I like the blog, so I’m happy. Encouraging false eyelash wearing may well be my calling in life. Ladies, go [...]

and people wonder why I don’t get too homesick

Seeing as a) my last two entries have been about Poland and b) one of my primary concerns in life is whether or not I should ever move back to London, this story from The Sun seems appropriate. Warning: it includes the scariest photo caption ever: “Blade … knife like one used in pizza diner [...]

when polish skulls are smiling

.flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } My top priority while in Poland was to copy Magda and find a smiley.

in Kazimierz

On my last night in Poland, I was so tired and sick that when we hit our final bar of the night I lost a little bit of my mind. I went into the bathroom and when I came out I couldn’t find The Baron, so I thought he must’ve gone to the bathroom too. [...]

is it odd that I miss this sort of thing?

My London spy just filed this report: Had the most stressful coffee ever with Gaelle. First 2 random drunks had a fight, then another random drunk passed out cold for ages, an ambulance turned up, but didnt take him away as some other chav/pal turned up to help him, then all the drunks in the [...]

for the queen, part one: from “…” to “always”

…And May Your Last Words Be A Chance To Make Things Better, Magnetophone (I Don’t Have the Time To) Mess Around, The Broken Family Band 2-Step, Low 60 Revolutions, Gogol Bordello 1979, Garmonbozia A Bigger Graveyard, Women And Children A Method, TV On the Radio A Plague On Both Your Houses, Chris T-T A Pretty [...]


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Rachel started taking pictures as a kid in deepest Essex. Now she shoots in Los Angeles and has a funny half-American accent.

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