Decadence alert: following the Nintendo price cut Isabel and I are now a two-console family. I feel a bit guilty about buying a GameCube even at its current steal of a price (cheaper than the GBA even!) – and not just because I already have a P[…]

Down East Dulwich way, everyone’s talking about the Sea Cow, part of the ongoing gentri-restaurantification of Lordship Lane. The Sea Cow is a chip shop with attached eating area. But it’s a decidedly posh version of a chippy: at the fron[…]

“You’ve just made me blow up the university and most of the Bohemian Quarter!” “But Anna, you are only playing minesweeper.”
This is a cry for help, I fear for my sanity and I really need to know if anyone else does this[…]

What is happening to my mouth?
How can drinking a combination of Jack Daniels and coke and vodka and orange make the foam turn purple in your mouth when you brush your teeth the next day? I didn’t even touch Kat’s weird drink with Dr Pepp[…]

Is Big Beautiful? Sometimes. I was wondering the other night as I attempted to get all the way through another pizza from La Porchetta.* The question I would like to pose here is how do you feel when you leave leftovers on your plate in a restaurant.[…]

Whether or not we are taking the Carmody line or the Petredis line on this weeks Desert Island Discs, the programme was instructive listening to what Radio 4 deems acceptible. Yes, Nigela Lawson played Cleaning Out My Closet, possibly Eminem’s […]