If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!750g is not the same as 75g. If only I knew that before I’d spent half an hour finely dicing almost a kilo of the stuff, then stirring it into my finely sliced leek, carrot and pepper. And then […]

I have wanted to see Nikita for years. It was on Sky Movies the other day, so we Plussed it. It is very good.
It’s a simple story about a woman who is part of a drugs gang that kills three policemen when they are caught raiding a pharmacy. She’s sent to prison for 30 years, […]

The back is much improved. In fact, it was almost back to normal the next day and today - Saturday - it feels fine. It’s strange, but I’m not the only person on the team to have suffered with an immobile back last week. Perhaps it’s the change in the weather, or just the fact […]

It’s not yet eight and I’m already at work. Dedication? No. Back pain. It slowly came on last night, and woke me at four this morning. There was no chance of getting back to sleep. I hobbled to the bathroom and sat in the hottest bath I could muster in the hope of freeing things […]

It rained non-stop from the time I woke up, until four this afternoon, leaving me prowling the house feeling somewhat frustrated. After so much good weather these last few weeks, it feels wrong being cooped up all day.
So, when the sun finally - briefly - broke through late afternoon, I put on my coat and […]

The plod through the original printings of the James Bond books to see how they compare to the films continues. I’ve just finished Live and Let Die. (see previous: Thunderball; Casino Royale)
This one is very different to the film. To recap, Roger Moore’s first Bond sees him sent to investigate the murder of three British […]

Dreadful though this apparent bombing campaign might be, the security services’ gunning down of a person on a tube train throws everything into a whole new perspective. I, of course, know just as little as everyone else about who the guy was, what he was supposed to have been doing, or the reasons for his […]

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More eagle-eyed Mac users will have spotted the significance of today; July 17th. For those who haven’t, Mac OS X’s calendar application, iCal, always displays that date in the Dock, until it is started for the first time in that session, at which point it updates to the current date. Today, then, is the only […]

So, that was the weekend. I seem to have spent the whole of it walking. It all started early on Friday morning. Paul was on a course, so we made a special effort to get to the station early. Luck was against us, though, and the trains were running an hour late. He pressed on; […]