THE NEXT… THE NEXT SONG, THAT WE’D LIKE TO SING NOW… IS… YEAH, IS ONE… WHICH WAS… AH… ER, LAST BUT ONE RECORD, THE ONE BEFORE THIS… AND THE RECORD! (OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD I’M COMING UP ON THE LSD L[…]

Swallet: a raw soft ewe’s milk cheese from Cumbria, bought from Neal’s Yard Dairy
The swallet has a wrinkled rind, and is a rich cream colour underneath a faint white bloom. Tiny patches of blue-gray mould are scattered across it. Directl[…]

It’s ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, guest-starring the Uptight BBC Voiceover Man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6myXYN5u80
Don’t criticise what you can’t understand, square-o.
(more…)[…]

One of the really glorious bits of early-decade fusion pop: a Neptunes beat, a dancehall star, a supersweet pop-R&B chorus from Mya, everything bubbling and blending in the summer heat.
But that beat! The Neptunes could be frustrating, especiall[…]

And we’re back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hX5BkWv3nI
The Beatlebots continue to rock the Ed Sullivan show with ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, which the actual Beatles never played on the show, at any time, ever. Beatles, Cheatles[…]

Cheese stats: Raw cow’s milk, semi-hard cheese from Switzerland, bought from KäseSwiss
This cheese has a dark, crumbly, dusty grey rind, and contrasting pale creamy yellow interior.
The inside of this cheese is BEEFY – a huge blast of um[…]

The Dictionary of Drink has the noble aim of being ‘a guide to every type of beverage’ and is the kind of thing one can happily browse for hours during a lazy session in the pub. We found a copy in the very fine King Charles I off Cally R[…]

Dreams: a funny old business. I have particularly vivid and bonkers ones and always have, with lurid M C Esher-gets-drunk-with-Dali vertigo ones a speciality. I had always attributed these to my generally going to bed slightly the worse for wear, onc[…]

Remember them? Early eighties Stephen J.Cannell buddy show. The sit being Hardcastle was a retired judge, McCormick his last case, and together they chased down criminals who had slipped through the legal system to catch them in the act. Law & Or[…]

I met up with Katie for a cheesy Friday Borough Market lunch-and-review the other week.

This is our lunch! Clockwise from the top left you have salty ricotta, Raschera, St Denis and Roquefort.
Raschera
Mostly cow, with a bit of sheep, Italian, from […]