From Wikimedia. Mine look nicer than this. And less blurry.
The first time I roasted a chicken, I was mortified when it came to the carving. Everything was rubbery and congealed and covered in unpleasant skin, fat and bone. I could barely get any meat at all from the bird despite increasingly frantic sawing. I rubbed… >> continued | 5 Comments
So we owe £1.3 trillion. The economy will have shrunk by 4.75% this year alone. And Darling has made the following items his priority.
Well it’s good to know we’ve got a firm hand on the tiller. Fuck me. As he has learnt from years of sitting at the knee of… >> continued | 3 Comments
Seriously.
WTF?
I quite like the Sugababes. They’ve got a consistently strong writing and production team at work and a lot of their songs are superior quality filler. But who in the name of holy fucking bastards thinks there’s any kind of crossover between them and… >> continued
If you thought you had problems when you’re taking sideways glances at the urinals you get a real insight into the soul of the people who own cruise lines when you contemplate the behemoths they’re unleashing on the oceans these days. Every other year, P&O or Cunard or someone thinks: “hey – what if we built an even bigger boat? Make it so,” and cackling minions spring out from behind… >> continued | 9 Comments
Nov 12
I said the other day that the internets were ace. I respectfully wish to rescind that.
[Update: having uploaded this, it’s kind of interesting to see what AdSense things are showing (look away yonder up and to the right). Solicitors and acne cures, according to what I see. What keywords in this post title triggered them? Do solictors advertise to chimps? Is “facerape” a euphemism for… >> continued | 2 Comments
I love Sherlock Holmes. Ever since gingerly taking down my Grandad’s complete Sherlock Holmes from his shelf and leafing through, transfixed by Sidney Paget’s glorious etched illustrations and the world they evoked.
For some reason, he’s never really worked on the screen for me. Not even the supposedly definitive Jeremy Brett version flicked my switches. I can’t quite put my finger on why either as I normally dig… >> continued
