The most popular and visited page on this blog is the one about making (or rather, attempting to make) Aloo Paratha, complete with a dodgy recipe. It gets a minimum of ten to twenty hits a day from search engines. So what better way to improve stats than food-blogging. First off: pizza. Now, we all […]
As I hurtle day-by-day closer to the grave, my mind is filled with a smug satisfaction. No matter how bad things get, as limbs become sore and the memory gets all, you know, thingummy. I can sit happy in the knowledge that never again will I be a teenager. I can actually look back relatively […]
Or, “We’re all going to die. Why did I let the English guy drive the car?”
In case you’re not aware, gentle reader, in the UK and Ireland, we drive on the other side of the road to the Continentals and indeed, you North Americans (although the Irish are messing about with their road signs, just […]
….she said, before adding, “who knows, maybe we can work this out?”
I didn’t reply.
If by “work this out”, she meant that we could exchange the belongings we had in each other’s homes in a relatively civilised manner, continue to occasionally work on PR projects together and, apart from a few initial awkward moments, still go […]
“Zeugen Jehovahs“
Okay, it’s an easy one - “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, but what do you do when you find yourself on your doorstep talking to two of them? I could follow the example of my father who, when asked “If there was one thing that God could change in the world for you, what would it be?” […]
Despite my general disapproval of the shops being closed on the Day Of German Re-Unification, I don’t want to imply the fall of the Berlin wall was A Bad Thing. I’m still somewhat surprised however that the Linke.PDS still managed to attain 8.7% of the vote in the recent elections. Don’t you remember what some […]
