Isn’t living in the future marvellous?
Yesterday I needed to phone my broadband provider to give them the news that we’re moving to another company, on account of the fact that their modus operandi is to sign users up for a certain monthly fee and then 18 months later to double it – entrusting in apathy, I expect, to retain customers…
More plague, you say? Better fire the telly up then…
And here was me thinking I watched a lot of things on the telly in 2020, eh? Who knew THAT was coming… There’s no point lamenting the comparatively few *actual* blogposts between the last one of these and this one, because yet again in a plague-bedecked world there’s not only nothing of import to write…
Something in the way she moves… attracts me like a pomegranate
Get Back – the Beatles documentary. WHAT a riveting 8 hours of film! There are some people for whom this would be the worst thing you could make them sit through. However I thought I’d outline why for me it was the diametric opposite. First & foremost, ever since I learned that there was a…
We has some leftover ham (recipe from Marcus Wareing's latest marvellous book), and @freedoughballs made some pineapple gel that didn't quite set right… So why not create a new innovative canapé!? I call it "Ham and Snot"! Delicious! Like a gluten-free, dough-free hawaiian pizza. #yum #Bristolinnovation #daretodreambig
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The joy of philosophy. Of whisky.
The challenging thing about when one of your best mates publishes a whisky book is how is it possible to review it with any sense of objectivity? Well, the beauty of this being a personal blog is that I don’t HAVE to be objective – and can just get on with espousing my enthusiasm for…
