Its hard to do a picture thread without a picture, but as my Bread and Butter pudding was a companion to Chris’s squirrel I feel I need to post it. But a picture would say everything, when I turned up after a gnarly and damp journey I presented[…]

Pie claims first political victim[…]

STIMULANTS A GO GO: my heartbeats, my dexys, my life! If only Kevin Rowland had tried my “Sleepy Time Tea” (available in Planet Organic on Torrington Place, Perseopolis, the EXCELLENT Persian shop in Peckham and probably every other soddi[…]

Cheat’s Culinary Companion #3: More Mole Vicar?
“Trench arrived to find that his house, still known today as Dean’s Yard, was – according to a grumble from his wife Mary – filled with ‘dead things’ bones&#821[…]

In search of Squirrel – Part two (warning, contains graphic images)

Some of you may remember this article I wrote some time ago about my “failure” as a vegetarian and my quest for the different. Well, I’ve done it. Squirrel[…]

BBC on fine form today.. “When the beverage has boiled to a certain level, it sparkles and gives explosive-like rumbling sounds when you open the pot.”. The Brown Wedge’s Vic Fluro once invented a cocktail he called the Al-Quaeda, I[…]

ADVENTURES IN LENTILS 2
I was just going to have a frozen pizza. It was late after all. But then the “frozen pizza wretchedness” overcame me so I went for the store cupboard instead. Hmm, I though. Lentils and butter? I put the lentils on[…]

Mis-placed loyalty
The All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group held their Labour Conference bash yesterday. There was a free bar, with very nice nibbles and canapes.
The Group’s chair noted that whilst there were issues like ‘Binge drinking an[…]

THINGS I HAVE LEARNED FROM GROWING MY OWN BASIL
1. Pinch off the top of your plant after 4 sets of leaves to make it more bushy and less beanpoley
2. If you buy cheapo compost from Poundland, you will get a bonus crop of mushrooms[…]

MON DIEU, C’EST UN RIP OFF!
The French market held in Glasgow on Saturday as part of the Merchant City Festival looked promising. A long row of colourful stalls stretched the length of Candleriggs and only the addition of a couple of peasants w[…]