Wales meets Spain in a wok
Today, I thought I would share with you what I conjured up for dinner this evening. It will probably score points with the low carbs diet brigade as it is substantial and tasty but has no starchy ingredients like potato or pasta. The quantities of ingredients and cooking times are approximate – you’ll just have [...]
Heimat: Happiness is a TV series from your adolescence
I have been excitedly anticipating a DVD release for a year or two now and last week it finally happened. The Extended Edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King? The Director’s Cut of Donnie Darko? No. It’s actually a very long German television series from the 1980′s called Heimat. Heimat [...]
Curry and an ex-Cabinet Minister
foodSpent the weekend in London. We indulged in a curry just off Chiswick High Street. The food was reasonably good. Each dish was actually distinctive in flavour and didn’t appear to have been made by using the “one pot” method of just adding cream/almonds/coconut/sundry spices to a ladleful of curry-ish sauce that forms the basis [...]
Gridlock, free dental care and wigs
We made the mistake of attempting to drive to London on a Friday evening. As we were cruising through the sylvan splendour of the Wye Valley towards the Severn Bridge at Chepstow, heading for the M4 motorway towards London, we heard on the radio that there had been not one, but two crashes on the [...]
Ups and Downs
(Preamble to this post: for those of you not aware, I have been job hunting.) The bad news first: I didn’t get a job I didn’t really want. Yes, you read that correctly. So maybe that wasn’t bad news after all. I think. Apparently I was too “senior” for the role. But does that mean [...]
Beginnings
Thus begins my online journal, or blog, to those of you more au fait with online English. Now, I hate mission statements that don’t actually own up to what an organisation is really for. I mean, it’s just not true that a company simply wants “to be the best supplier of x product/service in y [...]
Barbados Free Press
21 Plus
Down’s Syndrome Association
Extra-Relish
MsMarmitelover
The Hardwick
Valentine Warner
De Void
Earthfiles.com
Forteana
Mirage Men
UFOs – Leslie Kean's site
Veddw Voice
Inky Fool
