Having listened to the Today Programme report on the (largely dreary) Commonwealth Games, I have become convinced that it would be much more interesting to turn the cameras on the (blood) sport of life in the Commonwealth Athlete village. So far, athletes have been pitted against stomach bugs, attack monkeys (no really), and poisonous snakes [...]
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Dough is me
Christmas Day, and my brother wants me to watch his new DVD, excited i agree. – could it be a new scifi film, or an obscure but brilliant history or science documentary he has discovered, or something equally as edifying? BTW, the moral is that if a family member you see infrequently asks you to [...]
Succumbing to Delia
I’ve never liked Delia, with her pop-tart approach to cooking, her single ingredient seasonal obsessions, but mostly I think I disliked her for grammar-fetishistic reasons – in particular I took against her for the way she said “ground nut oil” – it just seemed so incredibly lazy. What kind of cook, cared so little about [...]
