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Continue reading →: recipe for disaster part 2
I watched the youtube clip, read the instructions on the box and made the pasta dough to Jamie’s recipe. So why did my dough not roll smoothly through the pasta machine? Several attempts later I gave up and used a rolling pin. My friend the cheesemaker has given me some…
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Continue reading →: Peter Rice
An engineer rarely receives acknowledgement for their contribution to the creativity of a project. Peter Rice was an Irish engineer whose work has been celebrated in the film An Engineer Imagines. His work can be appreciated in structures like the Pompidou Centre, the Lloyds building, a church in Lille, the…
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Continue reading →: recipe for disaster
Sidney Bechet on the headphones, toasted bacon sandwich demolished and the first mug of coffee drunk. Let the day begin… I have a good set of cookbooks that I rarely use. But today I am going to give the Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver a whirl. Homemade pasta sounds good,…
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Continue reading →: Wood Pellets ode
I wouldn’t be a wood pellet For all the tea in China They took the heat, but not like peat, A smell that’s so much finer. The stink you get from pellets Lingers on and on They burnt a few at Stormont Now all those folk are gone.
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Continue reading →: art and the artist
There is a trend for rejecting the art of people whose behaviour has fallen short of what is acceptable by today’s ethical standards. For living artists or the recently dead, our reaction to disclosures about their sexual conduct is understandable. To be disgusted by paedophilia or sexual harassment is what…
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Continue reading →: Sheros
Gender politics is a hotly debated topic. Gender fluidity seems to get people’s goat. A trans woman may face all kinds of obstacles from some cis females who identify a woman by the genitalia she was born with. Germaine Greer holds some contentious views about gender equality. Those who do…
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Continue reading →: Writing Portal
As a half-hearted entrepreneur, I am looking for a new opportunity to exploit. It occurred to me that portals for writers might be one such opportunity. Obviously, it would be foolish to set out my entire business plan, but it’s not giving too much away to describe the bare bones…
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Continue reading →: The oxygen of publicity
There are some politicians who think that by denying killers access to the media, you will stifle their impact on the world. The NZ Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, has adopted a similar stance with the mass murderer who gunned down over fifty people in two mosques in Christchurch during Friday…
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Continue reading →: Spring is sprung
Just back from leafy Surbiton where the magnolias and daffodils are blooming lovely. Our garden has a few daffodils in bloom and, if it would stop raining for a day or two, some gardening might get done. New Zealand will be tightening their gun laws in the aftermath of the…
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Continue reading →: Hope favours the lucky
Won a few quid on the Cheltenham Gold Cup. Got my outside chance bet on for the final matches in the Six Nations. If Ireland beat Wales and England draws against Scotland I will rediscover my Irishness and have a few more quid to toast Saint Patrick.
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