Category: Finds

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“With a little wood and a lot of imagination, these diminutive homes manage to pack a lot of function into very little square footage.”

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“It kills me how people go in and mutilate a perfectly good recipe. Then you have bad reviews and more mutilations. I read these reviews and decided I’d make the recipe just as it calls and I recommend not changing a thing (except maybe adding 1/2 tsp of vanilla to your egg mixture).”

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““This is a secret family recipe for chocolate chip cookies! Everyone who tries them begs for more. Enjoy!!” – by NICOLEFAUSTHUNT”

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“When he bought it three and a half years ago, Chris Newman’s three-storey semi was horribly cold, with solid walls, leaky windows, electric storage heaters, an inefficient boiler and very little insulation. Now, the property’s original name of Hope Villa fits it perfectly.”

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“A series of fires, often referred to as the “flowers of Edo”, raged during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Japanese city we now know as Tokyo. Each horrible blossom reduced a part of the metropolis to ashes.”

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“When we bought our house two years ago The Boy was not quite 2 years old. The room that was to be his had a storage room attached to it. Our roof pitch is really steep next to his room, so it forms a triangular room 7 feet by 12 feet. The door is about 2 feet by 4 feet.”

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“Last time I left New England and ventured into the Midwest (virtually speaking), I  found myself in a heap o’ trouble. Blogging a recipe for Chicago deep-dish pizza, I implied – well, to tell the truth, boldly stated – that this recipe made an “authentic” Chicago-style pizza.”