I am not really a coat person. I don’t like being muffled and winter coats I have tried on in the past have always felt like I was being suffocated with blankets. My staple has always been lightweight stuff, most recently a Paramo windproof, waterproof fleece. So, when the Lands’ End Wool Pea Coat arrived […]
General
Stay Away
“UN nuclear monitors have advised Japan to consider expanding the evacuation zone around the stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. An exclusion zone with a radius of 20km (12 miles) is currently in place but the UN says safe radiation limits have been exceeded 40km away. … … The US and UK earlier advised […]
Happy St Edmund’s Day
Have a great day today, celebrating the feast day of England’s patron saint, St Edmund The Martyr
The Last Piece Of Chocolate Cake Scenario
There it is, on the table, it is a chocolate cake, a good chocolate cake. There is only one piece left. You want it. I reckon there are four types of people. Selfish You want that last piece. The challenge is to persuade everyone else to let you have it. If the room is empty […]
Rubbish Christmas 2010 – Must Have Christmas Tree
It is rare to find an item which is thoroughly awful in concept, tacky in execution and utterly ugly. But then, there is always The Range. This year, they are offering a 170cm Cascading Snow Tree – Black, a snip at £99.99. This ghastly piece of festive tat awaits you at your local store, or […]
Books That Stuck
Winnie The Pooh – A. A. Milne Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler Barbarossa – Alan Clark Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury The Sentinel – Arthur C. Clarke Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson Unordnung Und Frühes Leid – Thomas Mann The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future – Charles […]
It’s time for the truth about spending cuts
The scale of Ireland’s financial crisis is chilling. A government panel of economic experts yesterday proposed huge spending cuts, including the axing of 5 per cent of all public sector jobs. Things are not quite that bad in Britain. But … (The Times)
Wearable Food
Small modelling a chocolate 99. We are big on wearable food here, my speciality is the egg and bacon sandwich tie.
Historic Hunger Figures
World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009 with 1,020 million people going hungry every day, according to new estimates published by FAO today. The most recent increase in hunger is not the consequence of poor global harvests but is caused by the world economic crisis that has resulted in lower incomes […]
We built a beach
We live so far from the seaside, the poor little souls had to make their own.