Aren’t pubs great? Big social levellers, allowing us to drink perfectly brewed and measured pints and spirits, allowing us to enjoy each others company without worrying about who is going to clean up the fag ash from the floor. I prefer pubs to[…]

Walk on By – Dionne Warwick
Buck Owens – Big In Vegas
Baby, Lets Have A Baby Before Bush do Something Crazy – Coup
Borderline – Madonna
Northern Star – Hole
Anything But Mine – Kenny Chesney (more…)[…]

vote in the sukrat wiretapper poll[…]

This time the battle is between Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas and Fergie of Manchester United. Note that both our protagonists are trying to garner votes by looking serious.

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(this recipe is adapted from claudia roden’s 1968 classic A Book of Middle Eastern Food) (warning: it takes abt three hours from start to finish, but you can do other things during almost all of this)
GET THIS:
1 x aztec marmite (or equiv)
1 x […]

We are so used to various foods being bigged up as the next superfood, packed with nutritious goodies to keep us zingingly alive, that it has become difficult to be surprised by the next pick. One day its pomegranates, next its mandarins, then macker[…]

Not officially announced by Nintendo yet – but MCV reports November release date for the Wii at a launch price of £149! Haw – perhaps I can get the digital camera later then. This is a good £275 (!) cheaper than the (estimated) (put bac[…]

Category: Nearly-Railway
They had been long, dry months, but after a lengthy break from Railwaying, it was time to kick off the project once again. Keeping it local seemed the right way to start, and The Railway Telegraph is the nearest Railway to ho[…]

Freakytrigger has been quiet over the last few days. This can pretty much be put down to the marriage of our main technical support and indispensable chief Admin bloke Alan Trewartha and his stunning bride Emma Hamilton. This means that the site will[…]

“BUDAPEST, Hungary: Police recovered a collection of video cassettes stolen from a production company working on the BBC’s new TV series Robin Hood, after questioning one of two suspects, police said Saturday… The suspect — identi[…]