If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Working in PR. It’s not all parties, lunches and chasing up journalists’ lost luggage. Someone working in just that industry dropped a mouse in the post to me this week, along with a piece of specially-commissioned research designed to […]

It’s the last weekend of the month, so time to make biscuits. This month, oat and coconut biscuits. They’re a bit like nobbly Hobnobs - or what Hobnobs would be like if they weren’t rolled out flat.
The following quantities make 50 biscuits, so can be reduced as necessary to make smaller batches (half them for […]

It’s been such a hot dry summer that the autumn fruits are already starting to ripen, and so today we headed down to the railway line at Margaretting to pick the brambles from the edge of the farmer’s field.
They were cutting the corn as we walked past, guiltily hiding the plastic boxes we’d brought along […]

There are some wonderful old second hand bookshops opposite the British Museum, about 10 minutes’ walk from the office. I was wandering around there at lunchtime, when I came across these choice volumes:
How to Avoid Being Drowned

Cameos of Vegetarian Literature

Three Weeks of Wet Sheets: Diary and Doings of A Moist Visitor in Mallorca

Dangers to Health: […]

Nik and opposite number Mark from Macworld at the Ice Bar
First week back is always busy. It’s Friday already and only now am I getting to the end of the pile of email that needed to be read and answered. It was also press week.
So, it was nice that there were two excuses to go […]

The shrine itself is quite peaceful, but the town itself has cashed in on the pilgrimage trail in the most dreadful, blatant manner.

Porto’s Ribeira district is dirty, broken and falling to bits. But that gives it its charm, and is probably why it’s now a Unesco World Heritage Site.

It’s built on the edge of a gorge. Plenty of hills to climb.

It takes some serious wattage to light up Santiago’s cathedral.

The cathedral people walk 1500km to see.