Stuck on Scrabble! There’s nothing better than a complete and utter revelation within a sport. The moment where say, a football game goes from being a boring kick-about between a be-mulleted-giffer and scary German goalkeeper to an intricately […]

I don’t want my first coffee of the day GOOD, I want it STRONG!!
On days I have to go into work, no problem: the Pret at Angel makes coffee well (they don’t all but that one does). At home, I almost invariably have DOUWE EGBERTS, not cz […]

Red Wine VS White Wine: a recent ILE thread with a lot of poncing about different merlots and chardonnays and other such things which should stick to Footballer$ Wive$ but not a lot of help on my urgent and key white wine question: which is – h[…]

TIME COMMANDERS again, another the-past-is-a-v.-v.-foreign-country moment: Hittites vs Egyptians, the Battle of Qadesh. “This is before the Greek idea,” says my pal Aryk blithely, “of battles having a winner and a loser.” THOS[…]

Sunday mornings are a dry time for me televisually. The behemoth that is Hollyoaks has never suckered me in, and the other channels diet of Christian God bothering and non-specific deity bothering bothers me not. And running and hiding from Sunday Ho[…]

“Fox-elves cut off the people’s hair” – History of the Wei Dynasty, AD 477: The Fortean Times is 30 years old this month, and has a special commemorative supplement to celebrate. On the whole, they’re more likely to cove[…]

The photograph in Linda McCartney’s Home Cooking of ‘exciting non-meat products’ is frankly quite scary. The copyright of the books says 1987, but these products have a look that’s pure 70s. Vegetarian food packaging has imp[…]

I bought the Cutco Knives cookbook for the possibility of garish fifties food photos. After buying it, and actually reading the recipes, I realise, oh, it’s a MEAT cookbook, it won’t be overly useful as a cookbook to me. But oh, it’[…]

Unlike Martin, I don’t actually think the problem facing the Theory of Everything is that certain aspects are difficult to describe or explain, I think it’s that the programme-makers – on showing so far – take for granted that[…]

I watched some sort of medical mystery show about Toxic Shock Syndrome on Discovery Health. If the show is supposed to be a suspenceful mystery, it’s a bit of a failure as there’s not much mystery if you have been paying attention to wome[…]