I think it was a combination of Chris Hoban and Annabel Meikle’s comments on Facebook that kicked this idea into reality – I’ve long suspected that the obscurity and specificity of crisp flavours was a bit of a sham, and that in fact there are only a few basic flavour …
To date in my life I’ve been pretty smug about something – I’ve never lost a wallet, a set of keys, or been pickpocketed*. I’d put this down to maintaining a general sense of awareness, and some behaviour patterns to minimise the risks of losing any of them. Late last …
Bluetooth – according to the globally accepted source of all accurate knowledge – was described in 1989 and implemented in 1994. It’s now 2019. 25 years. You’d think SOMEONE would have gotten it to work properly by now. The dearly missed Douglas Adams, in his wonderful essay “How to Stop …
The response that nobody asked for. Having recently read 2 blogposts on the topic, this qualifies the topic of “Grading Whiskies Out Of 100” to now be styled as “a debate”* – so I thought I’d add my own slant on what I’ve read so far… irrelevant as it may …
Our house has a rather lovely garden, although some of the fixtures are a little on the dated side. We recently had fences put up so we can release The Hound into the yard without fear of him escaping or marauding the neighbours’ back yards. And another job that’s been …
We’ve got a puppy. I don’t think I mentioned this anywhere on here formally, although my Instagram feed has been fairly clear on this of late and a brief tag search here will verify this. When we first collected him, he was very small indeed. Since then, he’s proven to …
