Super Chocolate Cake, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

This is the rather dubious looking cake I baked for Clarkson’s birthday recently. It was based on a Waitrose recipe for Super Chocolate Cake and was generally successful. I changed the initial recipe by adding copious amounts of white chocolate chips and chunks of dairy milk. I also iced it with lemon flavoured icing. Red for the top, orange for the middle. The main problem with the resulting cake was that it ended up being a little stodgy. I put this down to my method of throwing all the ingredients in a bowl and mixing them all up rather than the careful steps described in the recipe of folding, whisking and flufferising.
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Adler Tippa S Typewriter, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

I got this typewriter for Clarkson for her birthday. It is a quite fantastic device. It also happens to be the first thing I have bothered to win at auction at ebay for the paltry sum of £12 + £10 p&p. This is pretty good value since they can go for quite a lot - up to £300 in some cases. The age of this particular model is tricky to determine. The manual that came with it was photocopied from the original and the way that it is written does not suggest it is from the 50’s. It seems like this particular design of typewriter has been in production for quite some time. They even still make them in China apparently.
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Imbimp/Elephant Pie, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

This weekend Clarkson made me an Imbimp Pie, with real, or at least elephant shaped bits of pastry walking round the edge. I think its probably apt for the website since not only does it carry the imbimp logo, but also carries the brownish theme, making it a little camoflaged.

Making the Imbimp pie is very easy. You will need…
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IMGP3312, originally uploaded by Tim Tim Tim.

For some time now, I have suspected that Cricklewood is a place that loves fridges. The reason I say the place loves fridges rather than the people that live there, is that its residents seem rather less keen on the devices, as shown by repeated cases of fridge abandonment at almost every opportunity.
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It appears that Google have changed their mobile iGoogle experience yet again. I wrote before how they have removed the fantastic iPhone optimised version back at the beginning of this year and replaced it with a generic application that just isn’t as good. My main gripes were that I want a summary view of the main stories of the moment from all my RSS feeds, that loads quickly. Obviously a specific RSS reader application would do this, but all of the ones I tried take too long to download all the stories of a given feed before I can just zip down the list and read them all.
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