“Jiggers used to stand and breathe at the open window for half an hour before dressing. He said it expanded his lungs. He might of course, have done it at a shoe store with a boot stretcher, but after all it cost him...
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Eureka moments, sudden realisations that change you forever, revelations of great truths. They are all epiphanies. I had a self epiphany at my first school cricket match. When I walked in to bat, the opposing team as a man moved...
It was a simple heart-warming scene. A young mother was pushing her beloved toddler in a pram and arrived at the pedestrian crossing. Naturally, mum was talking on her phone as well. But the crossing required her to hit the...
No matter what temperature we set, our new budget oven either blackened our food or refused to cook it. As ovens go it was as useful as a rubber knife in a balloon popping competition. Like Toad of Toad Hall impersonating a...
Now that I have hijacked your attention with a totally false claim, here are the top 10 things about the complexit-teas and inconsequentialit-teas of tea. Tea bags are made from dust. That’s right your old reliable...
To cut costs and boost profits, organisations must really consider the half-baked business model. This bleeding edge approach first stormed into consumer consciousness when half baked bread rolls appeared in the supermarket. The...
TV cooking segments really appeal to me because everything is so quick. One moment Fast Freddy is chopping up a few onions and vegetables. Then in a flash he’s adding some secret sauce only available in a particular...
The first refrigerator that I remember was kerosene powered. As a child it fascinated me that a device for making things cool (a fridge) could be powered by a burning flame that was extremely hot. No one could explain it to me...
Of course we could grow our own vegetables. We had seen celebrity gardeners on TV do it. It looked so quick and easy when the whole process was shown in fast motion. One minute the celebrity gardener was turning the first spade...
You are an actor, your boss is an actor, your significant other is an actor, I am an actor. We’re all actors and “all the world’s a stage” as Shakespeare noted. If acting is about pretending to be someone...