I normally associate Scandinavia with snow and ice but it’s really hot in Oslo right now. Along with a good number of the Oslo natives, I have spent the afternoon at the beach on one of the islands in the Oslofjord. Alternating between sunbathing on a rock and swimming in the fairly warm water - [...]
Soya is usually thought of as a health food but it’s not all tofu and soy milk, it’s also a huge ingredient in most processed food. And apparently it may in fact be bad for you. It’s okay when consumed in the traditional way, such as in the form of miso or tofu, but modern [...]
The first thing I have to mention is that I am writing this on board the train from Glasgow back to London. Not writing it to post later but actually writing it live via the wifi connection in my carriage. Eventually I think they plan to charge for wifi but right now they have a [...]
I met my cousin Jenny in Glasgow yesterday and we caught the bus back to Inverary yesterday. Inverary is about two hours west of Glasgow on Loch Fyne and it’s a beautiful little town of white buildings perched on the shore of the loch and a castle just outside the town boundary. Jenny is now [...]
My four days in Tanzania have been and gone and I am writing this on the train to Scotland, where I will spend the next four days visiting family. I arrived back from Tanzania yesterday morning after a very long flight that involved a stop in Cairo for refuelling thanks to a fuel shortage in [...]
Some of the guys and gals in my office haved started a breakfast blog. I never knew there was so much comic mileage in what people eat for breakfast! See Studio 20’s Breakfast
I have tamed the beast! 1474 pages and I am done. Woo hoo!
A Suitable Boy was definitely worth the effort. I already admired Seth for An Equal Music and in this, very different, book he doesn’t let me down.
I enjoyed it from the beginning, although it is true that it was slow to begin [...]
I think from now on, I should only release copies of How to be Good by Nick Hornby and nothing else. I don’t know what it is but I have had the most phenomenal luck with wild catches from this book. The first copy was released in a cafe in Sydney in August 2003 and [...]
You may have read about the guy who wanted to trade one red paper clip for a house. He started with a red paper clip and traded it for a fish-shaped pen and made better and better trades with the idea of working his way up to a house. Now the town of Kipling in [...]
Our skate to Wimbledon was on BBC News last night, right between the end of Wimbledon and the start of the World Cup Final! Magic! The Beeb had 17 million viewers for the football last night so that’s not to be sneezed at in PR terms.
I didn’t see it so no idea if you could [...]