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Continue reading →: Order order!
In this part of the world now known as Backstopland, we have been doing without elected representation for about two years. We continue to pay our MLAs for no particular reason. We have a Minister of State so out of touch with local feelings that in the middle of an…
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Continue reading →: Sons of a Mother
The day began well. Breakfast was served followed by a walk to the shops to buy flowers, chocolates, a card and the paper. Mothering Sunday. The surprise lunch at Deanes Meat Locker had been arranged and our youngest was coming to pick us up in plenty of time for herself…
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Continue reading →: John Hewitt revisited
My Saturdays are usually lazy days of overeating and binge tv watching. But last week I ventured out and felt all the better for it. This weekend I bought my better half a bicycle from Austin. It’s a nearly new Carrrera with front suspension. I rode it around Ormeau Park…
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Continue reading →: Chaos
In a quaint Victorian building on the banks of the Thames, a few hundred men and women have been entrusted with the affairs of state. And what a state they have made of it. Chaos rules supreme with splinter groups, backstabbers, deal makers and power hungry public school twats helping…
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Continue reading →: the daily grind
Yes, even more foodie stuff… My De’Longhi coffee maker grinds the coffee beans before delivering a really tasty cup of espresso. Having bought my beans at the local market, I decided to buy a coffee grinder so that if we run out of Lavazza Rosso I can grind away for…
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Continue reading →: 5 eggs?
I just chucked out the pasta dough made according to Jamie’s recipe. My cheesemaker friend sent me a much simpler recipe: 100g plain flour and one egg. wet with water as necessary bring ingredients together knead a bit roll out into a thickness that will go through the pasta machine…
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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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