The little girl who named Pluto is still alive, and in her eighties. So maybe the guys in New York at the Hayden Planetarium who want to strip Pluto of its planetary status should wait a couple of years until she’s dead.
 (Actually according t[…]

MULLED WINE! Yeah! A brief mention of Pimms Winter (brandy cup, to you and me) is all it took to remind me of clutching a polystyrene cup gingerly with gloved hands and trying not to burn my tongue on the spicy yet STICKY warmth of the comforting vis[…]

Aggresively pushing its Frenchness by spelling words in a French way, Boursin Salade & Apertif is another attempt at the snacking cheese holy grail. Okay, not so much a holy grail as a on the wholly bad idea, it was at least partially solved by […]

I don’t go out of my way to watch Top Gear. It was just on, OK? And as it was on I noticed something quite horrible. Jeremy Clarkson interviewing Steve Coogan. And it was like watching The Abyss* stare into itself.
Okay, it is not exactly clev[…]

MALCOLM MACLAREN AND THE WORLD FAMOUS SUPREME TEAM – “Double Dutch”: One for the heatwave, probably my all-time favourite summer jam. “Hey Ebo! Ebonettes!”[…]

catsthatlooklikehitler.com “kitlers” – pretty much what you imagine it is. For those now bored by infinitecats and puttingstuffoncats.[…]

There are three steps to perfectly cooked rice:
* Clean the rice
* Use 2 water to 1 rice (or a little less water, 1:1.8 as Gary Rhode might say)
* Leave lid on and DO NOT STIR (yes that is 1 step)
and that really is it. If you are still getting stick[…]

It’s been an unusual few months for me in music listening terms. I’m normally big on variety, skipping from soul to hip hop to pop to punk to reggae from one moment to the next. However, a kind friend gave me over 500 albums early in the […]

Even MTV who are making Totally Boyband, and Digital Spy don’t seem to have noticed that the phrase “five former boyband members” seems to skate over Bradley S-Club. Poor Rachel, poor Jo, poor Hannah, poor… her, you know.. Tin[…]

Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and natural scientist, 372 to 287 BCE, retells a legend about wise men who sat under the shade of the banana tree and ate some of its fruit. In the time of the legend the banana plant was given the botanical name tha[…]