Originally written on Friday, 30. March 2007. Welcome one and all to the latest excursion into the world of food. Roald Dalh understood food. He wrote about it more than once. There were Giant Peaches, rivers of Chocolate, Henry Sugar and Nibbleswick, which, is not strictly speaking food, it is a food related act that Pavlov … Continue reading Food on the Hoof
The 2007 Six Nations : Final Thoughts
Originally written on Friday, 30. March 2007. Well, depending on your point of view, the best team came first or second. France clinched their second Title in two years, but were less than thoroughly convincing, which, if they are hoping to take England's crown of World Champions later this year, on home soil, then they will … Continue reading The 2007 Six Nations : Final Thoughts
Food on the Hoof
Originally written on Friday, 23. February 2007. This is the latest instalment from the English Epicureans occasional deranged ramble about good food, out and about. Good food should not be the preserve of the high priced, swanky restaurant, the up market chic bijou eatery that has both a Maître d' and a sommelier and where the menu has … Continue reading Food on the Hoof
Rugby : 2007 Six Nations
Originally written on Friday, 23. February 2007. Would you believe it, England and France at the top of the Six Nations, Wales and Italy at the bottom vying for the Spoon and Ireland and Scotland nicely in the middle, each with one win and one defeat. Scotland came into this in good cheers, predicting, on the … Continue reading Rugby : 2007 Six Nations
Food on the Hoof
Originally written on Saturday, 30. September 2006. This is the second instalment in my occasional series of scribbling about food on the hoof. Wherever you go in the world, there is always at least one nice place to eat, one great restaurant that serves excellent food, either local or imported. Great fish dishes, excellent meat courses … Continue reading Food on the Hoof
Food on the Hoof
Originally written on Monday, 21. August 2006 GRIMSBY (n.) A lump of something gristly and foul tasting concealed in a mouthful of stew or pie. Grimsbies are sometimes merely the result of careless cookery, but more often they are placed there deliberately by Freemasons. Grimsbies can be purchased in bulk from any respectable Masonic butcher on … Continue reading Food on the Hoof
News from the North…
Originally written on Saturday, 12. August 2006. It has been a few weeks since my last update, but it has not been an uneventful period. Liz and Phil's Navy traded a Harrier Jump Jet for a lorry, we've discovered a pair moons, sorry, no, planets, no sorry, suns, er, objects that seem to be causing more confusion … Continue reading News from the North…
Leptis Magna
Originally written on Monday, 5. June 2006. Lepcis Magna or Leptis Magna, an ancient city along the Mediterranean Sea, located near the modern-day city of Al Khums in Libya. The city began as a trading port for the ancient people of Phoenicia around 1000 BC and then became part of the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis. … Continue reading Leptis Magna
The New Libya ?
Originally written on Friday, 2. June 2006, 11:56:06 So, I'm back in Tripoli and will be for a little while to come. So has anything changed here in the last five months since I have been away. Well, actually, it has. As from 1 July, the Americans will no longer be seeing Libya as a terrorist … Continue reading The New Libya ?
So where is Stockholm…. ?
Originally written on Monday, 3. April 2006. ... not as easy a question as you might think. I'm spending a few days here, entirely work related you understand, but I have just had my first potter round the Swedish capital. I have to say it is a beautiful city, really wonderful. I arrived around 1600 today, … Continue reading So where is Stockholm…. ?
Red Sky at Night, Shepards Delight
Originally written on Sunday 19, March 2006. ..... red sky in the morning, shephards warning, or so it goes. These pictures were taken by a colleague in Tripoli, mid Feb 2006. I was not in Tripoli at the time, so I can only go on eye witness reports. But, as the story goes, there was … Continue reading Red Sky at Night, Shepards Delight
Feature Three Post
The aircar rocketed them at speeds in excess of R17 through the steel tunnels that lead out onto the appalling surface of the planet which was now in the grip of yet another drear morning twilight. Ghastly grey lights congealed on the land. R is a velocity measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel … Continue reading Feature Three Post
Feature Two Post
"The Babel fish," said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It … Continue reading Feature Two Post
Feature One Post
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright? At first Ford had … Continue reading Feature One Post
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