I went into an absurd amount of detail about my tangible birthday gifts from Jeremy, but I haven’t yet mentioned my other traditional birthday present: a Big Meal Out. Last year’s birthday involved a trip to Sevendials, and while it was very,…
The title says it all, really.…
Though I’m extremely fond of it, I don’t tend to eat a lot of German food at home. Traditional German food - like the traditional food of most European countries, I reckon - tends to be a bit more meat-centric, labor-intensive and fat-laden th…
A busy day in Bologna the Learned.…
Schwarzenegger refers to Democratic opponents as "girlie men". Okay, maybe my feminist credentials are slipping, or maybe I’ve just watched too much Saturday Night Live in my time, but I find that totally hilarious.…
If the author of this article in Scientific American is right and the Voynich manuscript is actually a hoax, then, well, that’s a bit of a bummer. At least it would be an interesting hoax - there’s nothing really dull about an elaborate, beaut…
I’m back from my fantastic and music-filled trip to Ireland. While it was rainy and stormy here in England, Jeremy and I were enjoying astonishingly sunny weather on Ireland’s west coast. We did nothing but take walks through the countryside a…
It’s summer festival season, and I’ve been taking part in the music-making and merry-making that abounds at this time of year. I spent all of last weekend at a music festival, in fact. No, it wasn’t Glastonbury (egads, anything but Glast…