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Ostalgie
Oct 22, 2009
I can't sleep, so I cracked open my second bar of proletarian workers' German Democratic Republic chocolate. This stuff is oddly compelling. The first bar was peanuts held together by a thin brown matrix of supersweet chocolate. So sweet, you need to stop for a break after a couple of pieces.
This bar is a slab covered in very thin chocolate. The slab itself is (again) uebersweet, white and chewy. Not quite nougat. Nutty and sweet...coconuty, perhaps.
Years ago, I think they stopped producing this stuff after reunification, but there was such a clamour they brought it back. It got me wondering - why so gum-strippingly sweet? Then it hit me.  It must be a COMECON thing. That Cuban sugar cane can't all have gone into rum.
And if anyone cares for some, here's what to look for (and get this for a cool German name):
Gefuellte Vollmilchschokoladenspezialitaet. 
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I didn't know about this aspect of flu
Oct 5, 2009
and a lot of you are probably eating breakfast, so I won't elaborate. But it ain't pretty. 
Better news for  though. He'll get his megaphone collar off today and be able to sleep comfortably for the first time in a fortnight.
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Delving into Belfast.
Sep 18, 2009
I went off on a complete tangent on the Entry I'm researching this week, and got completely side-tracked by social history stuff. I found the 1911 (Ireland) Census, and started looking up all the family members who were in the world at that time.
In Belfast at that time, almost everyone who worked did it in the shipyards or the mills. An interesting point is that the Prod side of the family all worked in the yards, and the Taig side mostly in the mills. 
The city's geography still refects this. The area around the shipyards in the east is a completely loyalist area, while lots of the mills were in the west, which is still (mostly, although it varies) a republican area.
Other interesting facts: the surprisingly low number of Irish speakers in the family. That's a big sign of the revival of the language in the 20th Century - there are now *lots* of Irish speakers in (one side of) the family.
The women, when they had paid employment, worked in the linen mills. Most of the adults stayed in the home, but the girls (12 and up) were in the mills.
I was surprised how many could read and write, though. Apart from young kids, only one of them couldn't.
I also found my three great-great uncles, who died in WWI.
But the pride of place goes to my great, great grandfather  . I just *know* I would have loved this guy by the way he filled in the form. He seemed to have some objection to the layout of the census form. He gave all the requested information all right - but he just wrote it wherever he damn well pleased on the paper. Then, he circled each answer and gave it a mad, curving arrow directing it to its correct box. 
Is it possible that my great-great-grandfather invented "mind mapping"?
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An odd thought came upon me...
Sep 17, 2009
Wouldn't it be fun to book into a certain Torquay hotelier's establishment some weekend, unannounced and unidentified, and write a no-holds-barred review for this series?  A56850799
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