If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It took me 2 hours 40 minutes to get from Paris to London last night. That’s about 311 miles.
It took me 2 hours 50 minutes to get from Chelmsford to London this morning. That’s about 35 miles.
Ipso facto, Paris […]

The Eiffel Tower
Apple seems to take the Paris show far more seriously than London. I remember last year how there were Apple people here prowling the smaller stands to see what people were talking about. This year they’re even patrolling the press room. Admittedly not closely enough to see what you’re writing, but it’s interesting […]

September means Paris in this industry, so here I am again, testing my rather dodgy French on the native speakers. They seem to be largely understanding what I’m on about, which is encouraging.
I’m staying in the 8th, which turns out to be perfectly placed for just about everything. Easy to get down to the Expo, […]

Quince Jelly
The tomatoes really are coming on quicker than we can manage now. You can take off a dozen new fruits every day, and still have another dozen to do the next day. We’ve run out of things we can make with them.
So this weekend we’ve been picking and eating them, mainly in sandwiches, and […]

I’ve been to more than my fair share of launches over the last 12 years. Some lavish (first-class flights, a week in Japan, and dinner with a geisha); some not so (four journalists and two dozen product pushers at the London Dungeon - somewhere you don’t even want to head on a day out, never […]

Ultimately, the Bourne Supremacy was a superior film.

There’s a great quote in the current edition of The Week, given by Doc Mtusi from the Zimbabwe Finance Ministry to Cape Times:
The unpatriotic hoarding of food gives the impression that we have a problem, which clearly we haven’t, except in the South African media’s mind. We do not call it starving, we call it […]

The Eden Project
It’s late at night on Sunday, so work tomorrow, after two weeks of complete Internet and email detox. I’ve just downloaded several hundred messages that have been sitting in my inbox for the last two weeks as I’ve been buzzing around the winding Cornish roads, then packing boxes to move house, baking beetroot […]

The tiniest carrot ever
Everything we’ve grown and eaten from the garden has been nice so far, but I’ve doubted that in many cases they were better than what we could have bought from the shops. The strawberries (all 24 of them) were more strawberryish, and the smaller tomatoes have all been very intense. The broccoli […]

What do you do with 6kg of tomatoes that need using sooner rather than later? Chutney, of course.
Unfortunately the onion crop hasn’t come to much, so we bought a dozen medium-sized bulbs, and sliced them and the tomatoes into a large jam pan, then set them to reduce at a medium heat.

Now we were led […]