Ignore the waffling on about agas and scroll down to the recipe for sausage and black pudding with baked parsnips which i made for our teas last night.
Nigel, i think i love you (although i think next time i do it, i’ll brown the sausages first[…]

IF I WAS A WANKER
Haha, Midge Ure sounds a bit like Manure, do you see etc etc etc.
I often had a feeling that Midge, short for Intellectual Midget, got away with an awful lot because the only insult anyone ever laid at his door was that his name sou[…]

I know what you’re thinking — rapping dentist from Sweden makes anti-drugs record, time for a chuckle. And certainly the odds are against Dr Alban — his delivery is comically serious and his chorus runs ‘Cocaine will blow your[…]

The stir-fry. It is not a thing in itself, it is a method of cooking. And yet it gets referred to as an end product not a process; where in the seventies Wednesday night might have been Spag Bol night, these days it may well be stir fry night. Its ea[…]

Mmmm…nice – “daily adventures in Jazz” – do you know I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dedicated Jazz blog before, though of course lots of people (Josh in particular springs to mind) have written quite a lot ab[…]

Anatomy of a Meme: things described as “TARDIS-like” (thanks Google)
– analysers on a Mars probe
– a shed
– a Police Box (hmm)
– the Dust Bar on Clerkenwell Road
– a dice on Kids TV progamme Maths In A Box
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B-but surely the “urine varnish” scene will be on the DVD!!?[…]

Scarlett Johanssen is probably one of the reasons why I shall not be seeing Gurl with Perl & Lost in Trans (shortening names = new roc and rol!). I was getting along perfectly fine with the idea of Bill Murray getting confused about how to open […]

The sex addiction bit I can handle. The potential second coming of Christ plot, though old hat, has been a staple of my reading over the last twenty years (so much so that the worst excesses of my own juvenilia written at sixteen was a second coming […]

Scarlett Johanssen looks as much like the Girl With A Pearl Earring as Nicole Kidman looks like Virginia Woolf. Which is not a huge problem, as the film is much more about her mooning around the house feeling a bit hard done by. Luckily, since she ra[…]