Girls I do adore: General feeling* seems to be that The Prodigy have pulled it off and that “Girls” has them back on firing form. A few radio encounters in I’m not convinced. It’s not a bad record, let alone an awful one, but […]

I watched four films in the course of a sickie yesterday, so I’m not about to hand in my cinephile badge and gun, but the six-bleedin’-hour-long ‘Best of Youth’ has defeated my scheduling. I just can’t find two evenings […]

The Story Of The Weeping Camel: well the certificate was correct. There was indeed a scene of an animal giving birth. Which was, and I don’t think I am spoiling this for anyone, a camel. However the weeping is a bit of a misnomer, as with the s[…]

101 Things Removed From The Human Body (because someone had to post it). Really once you have got past the 24 inch steak knife, the five nails and the kid who literally had half of his brain blown out, there was not far for the program to go. Except […]

Pointless Pictures Of Nice Things #1

The ones sitting on my desk are all snow white. A colleague has brought them back from Italy. I am trying vainly to think of good reasons not to snaffle the whole huge packet.[…]

Discussion on sell by dates, nazi flatmates and mushrooms being a fungus already over on PBS. Also further info on what The Man says about food, including the tiny number of raisins that count as a portion in the five a day race (to my workings, abou[…]

The Food Standards Agency on that old chestnut, reheating rice.
“Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, bacteria that can cause food poisoning. When the rice is cooked, the spores can survive. Then, if the rice is left standing at[…]

Making your pets work for you.[…]

Written by Louise Dann, a real actual scientist
Use by dates and the science behind them.
This actually isn’t scientific so much as a personal rant about injustices done to food in the name of health and safety. Having a quick squizz at the Foo[…]

I AM TOM CRUISE (OR POSSIBLY BRYAN BROWN).
For the first time in about ten years I went to a party, and I made a mystery cocktail. I actually made three. In bucket quantities. This was something which as an entertainment’s rep at college I use[…]