Not the team, me, I've been cheating. It's been a long week, horrid weather, suddenly colder and the dark! Oooh it gets dark early doesn't it? What is the quintessential English dish? A Sunday roast? Shepherds pie? Cottage pie? Given their prevalence, history, and anglicisation, I even considered putting lasagne and chicken tikka masala in the …
Category: Opinion
Recipe source
Before I launch into everything I'm cooking and eating, I thought I'd share the source for a number of recipes. A few years ago, around 2018/2019 while we were visiting the in-laws, we visited RAF Cosford in Shropshire. It's not far from Telford or Ironbridge, and has 5 hangars of aircraft showing the history of …
Alternative World Cup
Hopefully you saw my feelings regarding the forthcoming world cup, and the human rights track record of Qatar in both the building of the stadia and the use of migrant workers, as well as their treatment of the LGBTQ community. It doesn't sit well with me and I doubt I'm alone. So, an alternative world …
Football or not…
Don't let the title put you off, I'm not massively into football either. I don't really have a team that I follow, although I am in possession of my late Grandfather's QPR mug; and my phone knows where I live, so gives me my local championship team's results whether I want them or not.I do …
Long time no speak
Hello, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here, and I’m about to get up and running again. This is a kind of test post, with a picture, to start me off. I’ve got an exciting new series of posts coming up, so do stay tuned.
Grown up presentation
I had originally titled this post ‘Pointless and distracting Powerpoint graphics’ and while that was overly wordy, it also didn’t cover everything that annoyed me. For years I’ve been working in organisations where the use of PP has been prevalent, who hasn’t? It did it exactly what is supposed to, show slides. In the initial …
Reaching Out
I saw another terribly sad social media post not so long ago from someone who had a lost a former colleague to suicide, saying how happy that person had seemed, how they’d been coping, how they were a strong person and thus urging others feeling like that, to reach out. Sadly, it doesn’t work like …
Feelings
I don’t normally write about anything sensible, and certainly nothing to do with feelings or emotions, but 2020 has been bonkers so I think it’s OK to go off script a little. One of the reasons I don’t talk much about feelings and emotions is because I’m not very good at it, I struggle to …
MRI Scanners
So this is quite a short post about MRI scanners. An old hockey club friend of mine works as a cardiac physiologist at a hospital in Hampshire. This is true to the best of our knowledge - 10 years on or so. If you’ve ever had an MRI scan you’ll know that they’re known for …
Deck Chairs
It seems a strange time of year to think about deck chairs, but putting away our wooden patio furniture (solid, safe, heavy, reliable) made me think back to the days of 70s of deckchairs. Not the lovely retro folding wooden ones, but the cloth and metal framed ones with plastic arms. And then laughing as …
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