I managed to distance myself from the horrific Reef by getting a room on the very top floor of the hotel. I still did not like to rely on something with the same name as a useless South Western band for my continued existence but I desperately needed[…]

More brand extensions (airport duty free is a great place to spot them after all). Bacardi Coco seems to me to be a bit of a no brainer. At least it is when you finally realise that the Coco in question in as in Coconut as opposed to Coco Pops. After[…]

“A quarter of adults who have bought alcohol for youngsters claimed they did not know it was illegal, research showed today”, it sez.
how could you not know that?
whoops i didn’t
P.S.
Sadly, I suspect Gale’s brewery will be qu[…]

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I love old cookbooks, looking at how culinary fashions have changed but also picking up useful tips that have been forgotten. Such as the best way to judge when a pig is done ‘is when its eyes pop out’ (the Art of Cookery, by Hannah Glass[…]

but i heard someone read this story out aloud from metro (update=the woman won her case) and they pronounced it “SEMOLINA POISONING”[…]

ABBA’s “The Day Before You Came” has a superb lyric. If you don’t know it, it’s a haunting song* detailing a totally ordinary day in the life of a single woman – getting up, going to work, eating lunch, coming home[…]

Already it is getting personal. Maths brother feels a bit bad because a student at his University that he blew off a few weeks before commits suicide. Being emotionally unstable, and given that Judd Hirsch seems a bit low on fatherly pats this week, […]

What you notice when you drink Pimm’s Winter Cup (ie what in my youth we called the No.3 Cup: the Brandy Cup) is how much it tastes like Pimm’s. You know Pimm’s No.1 (the Gin based cup). There is a slightly more warming edge to it, […]

Sorry, I have a feeling that this might not genuinely come into the area of minor irritations. I was going to avoid this blog this month as I (like to believe I) have a kind of Zen-like calm when it comes to the little things in life, and ignore rath[…]