Got a cough?
Slime it away!
I am not sure of the efficacy of using snail slime in cough mixture. But I am certainly not sure that Strawberry and Avocado is a proper flavour for a linctus. But further research shows that action the snails trail is a r[…]

There is little novelty now in food blogs which take a single, tiny area of the nosh world and plough them into entertaining furrows. Nevertheless two blogs by Russell Davies take the art of obviousness and raise them to truly stupendous heights.
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A standard Tuesday afternoon discussion of the correct spelling of humous (humus/hummus/houmous…) threw up this gastronomic delight. Worm Humus. Like standard, or even low-fat humus, worm humus is described as “grow media” and furth[…]

The new aI-qa3da on bbc2, whilst “timely” and an interesting counterpoint to the power of nightmares from 6 months ago, is a dreadfully flawed programme on a number of levels:
1. the first programme on “j!had on the interweb” […]

Just finished reading Love And Peace With Melody Paradise by Martin Millar and wondered if he had written anything else worth reading recently. Millar is one of those writers I occasionally stumble across, whose ability to turn a deceptively simple s[…]

Exeter City begin their 2005/6 campaign away at Gravesend and Northfleet, who play in Northfleet. It’s a not-especially promising kind of place on the Kentish bank of the Thames, but an easy first day trip for City fans based in London. How sup[…]

I was nearly rude to a man in the Wenlock Arms a few days back. I was sipping demurely on a series of diet cokes while all those around me tucked into delicious-smelling, fine-looking, well-kept real ales. At the bar, enviously buying my companions m[…]

They ain’t called Rockstar Games for nothing baby. How to perfectly market your second wave of sales. Except in Australia. What I find amusing is that these sex scenes will clearly have been programmed in extra time, making them either unpaid o[…]

CAMRA beer fest is upon us, which prompted me to look up the history of alcopops. And what did I find on the Bacardi Breezer website? A history of said drink in the FAQ’s which bore no time or content relation to my memory of it:
1. When was Ba[…]

I was officially crap at Games at school. It was always the low point in my school report. Small in stature, a year younger than everyone else in my class and no depth perception all added up to a poor team player: it was assumed. And it was true. Od[…]