Qype: Tapasia in London
London – Eating & Drinking – Restaurant – Japanese & Sushi For someone with “tapas baggage”*, the idea of a “tapas style” place can be fraught with angst and a sense of impending disaster. Although as Tapasia describes itself as “Japanese Tapas” the agony’s a little lessened… after all, sushi and sashimi are easily shareable…
You can pick anything off this shelf… between these books and these teddy bears, but not the pencils.
Like many people in London, I’m signed up to various “daily deals” provider emails. Generally they’re a thinly-veiled way to squeeze money out of people by offering discounts on implausibly priced products, however every now & again something drifts by that’s reasonable or fits within a plan that was already happening anyway. The deal to…
Anatomy of a walk to work
Following on from the gripping photo-documentary I did of walking from my hotel to the bus stop in Shimla a few years ago I thought I’d do a similar exercise concerning my daily walk to work. I’m always fascinated by photographing the mundane, because it’s only mundane at the time and your circumstances may change…
Social mathematics?
To be honest I don’t fully remember who was responsible for this – my memory’s telling me that it could have been Tristan, or Alex. Back at the tender age of 13-15ish I used to do quite a lot of ten pin bowling, and every Saturday morning mum would drive me down to Cross Road…
The Tun’s the one! (That’s Tun 1401, son)
I was always crap at origami. Every creation from my fingertipes has ended up a torn, skewed interpretation of what could have been delicate and graceful – a bull with miniscule front legs that make a T-Rex guffaw with superiority, or a swan that looked like it had been thrown down a stairwell. A subtle,…
Qype: Kimchee in London
London – Eating & Drinking – Restaurant – Other Asian – Korean Having worked in the area for a while, Kimchee is typically referred to as a landmark with the description, “That Korean place that always has the queues out the front”. If you have the good fortune of spending any time inside, the reason…
If whisky burns the throat, you’re probably drinking it too fast.
If whisky burns the throat, you’re probably drinking it too fast.:
I was wondering if anybody I knew had written this piece on Vijay Mallya’s whisky (mis)fortunes, until reading this gem of sensory analysis: “A recent sampling by The Independent of both Bagpiper and Officer’s Choice could discern little difference between the two – both burned the throat.”
“It’s awe-inspiringly awesome that this event has happened: one’s own existence. The…”
“”It’s awe-inspiringly awesome that this event has happened: one’s own existence. The idea that after all this space there’s You, and then there’s Not You… and you’re faced with the question of how you’re going to spend that time. It’s so much more profound than any hypothesis about some pathetic garden with unicorns and hugs that goes forever… I mean, people don’t even know how to spend their Saturday afternoons – what do I want with eternity?””
– @timminchin on Desert Island Discs
"It’s awe-inspiringly awesome that this event has happened: one’s own existence. The…"
““It’s awe-inspiringly awesome that this event has happened: one’s own existence. The idea that after all this space there’s You, and then there’s Not You… and you’re faced with the question of how you’re going to spend that time. It…