Moose’s head, made of chocolate. On sale now (50% off) at…
Moose’s head, made of chocolate. On sale now (50% off) at Fortnum and Mason. I love this planet.
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Ruby and a pocket watch, or stand in awe (that’s all meant to be rhyming slang)
I suspect this is entirely too late to be of any use to anyone, but it was awesome, so it seems like the sort of thing one ought to mention… In early November I was extremely fortunate to be invited to a whisky tasting dinner at the exceptional and renowned Quilon restaurant in Buckingham Gate. …
Those lucky, lucky fish
It’s brilliant being at the top of the food chain (as a species, I mean – I’m not claiming to be at the absolute pinnacle of the food chain personally… although apparently human flesh tastes like chicken…). It means that we can force tiny little fish to chew dead skin off our feet, and all…
You know, some days I have no sympathy that your little blue-green planet is going to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
Do you want to hear about a comprehensive shopping cockup, boys and girls? No? Oh, well you’re rather out of luck then… The setup So, Liz decided that she wanted to buy a telly. Something to do with paying for a Sky package every month in order to get internet, and having no telly with…
Badass Of The Week
Badass Of The Week: Taking tales of awesomeness from history, literature, cinema, and anywhere else it can be found and then re-writing it to highlight the awesomeness more, this site is fast becoming one of my regulars. This example features the Bad…
That’s m’boy!
It’s not strictly a story from this year, but it’s from last Christmas, it’s one of my favourite stories, and seemingly I haven’t gotten around to blogging about it yet… so that makes it more than eligible for the jasonbstanding.com treatment, doesn’t it? Admittedly, I think I’ve already told everyone I’ve ever met, but I…
Whisky Squad 8a – Whisky Surprise!
The way we’d usually run a Whisky Squad session would be to pick a theme, and then select a few whiskies connected with that theme to sample for the evening. Caught up as we were with preparation for the end of year Christmas Dinner, however, we didn’t realise that there would be such demand for…
Qype: Carnevale in London
London – Eating & Drinking – Restaurants – Vegetarian As a lifetime steak enthusiast it has taken me many years to reconcile with the idea of going to a vegetarian restaurant, and on the various occasions I have done it’s usually worked out pretty well, although with the thought, “Perhaps there’s still time to grab…
Hummanana hummanana hummanana hummanana. POODLE! POODLE!
Weird Al Yankovic is a comedy legend. He released his first parody song in 1976, and has been steadily at it ever since. Far from being mainstream, people claim not to know who he is and yet all seem to know a handful of his breakthrough songs. And whilst touring nearly consistently as well, he…