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- Pies are great
Tony down at Supa Fry, my local chip shop, is a big fan of Pukka pies. “The guy who started the company,” he says, “he started in his garden! This was 40, 50 years ago. And now look at it. They’re sending pies around the world now. And good luck to him.”
Tony is, as ever, [...]
- It’s the finest bevvy ad ever made
The ongoing heady celebration of what is possibly Scotland’s finest ever football win had me thinking back to World Cups of yore. And, specifically, Mexico 1986, when Gordon Strachan scored against the West Germans and found himself too short to jump the advertising hoardings while celebrating.
And then, in what’s possibly an alarming insight into the [...]
- Ramsay and the tyranny of the critic
A highlight of a recent trip to New York was eating at Gordon Ramsay’s new place at The London hotel. We ate there on New Year’s Eve - an astonishing nine-course tour de force, during which the couple at the next table got engaged, and after which we got a little tour round the immense [...]
- I love sprouts
…but I still love this game* [thanks Sasha!] if only for the wonderful reworking of Tears For Fears’ 80s production classic, “Shout”. Now “Sprout”.
* The sharp-eyed will note this is a year-old viral meme thing that I’m only blogging about now. You may find faster viral meme thing suppliers elsewhere.
- My Flickr foodblog
In homage to the Google foodblog I thought I’d set up my own office foodblog. Enjoy.
- Life imitates the Onion, pt 2567
Here’s a late candidate for most Onion-like real story of 2005: over Christmas a would-be iPod owner found a piece of sealed “mystery meat” in the music player’s box, rather than the player itself.
It’s the quote in the ABC news story that seals the deal. Says mother, of son getting the prezzie: “He went from [...]
- DNA-mutating nut fungus
I’m pleased to note my 2003 post on a nasty form of nut fungus is making its annual trip back up my “most read” stats.
That is all.
- Whas like us? Gie few an thur aw deed (or dying)
I’m not sure what left me more surprised from this story in today’s Guardian on the health of Irish and Scots living in England and Wales: the fact that us expats appear to be dropping like flies, or the fact that we’re now being described as an "ethnic minority group". What sets us apart from [...]
- Seduced by the bright lights, again
My regular reader will have deduced I like pictures of bright lights, and especially ones taken at night. So here’s another night view of the city; looking south across the Thames, from the bar of Rhodes 24, the rather fantastic restaurant in Tower 42. Mrs Tosh took me there for my birthday last week. Fans [...]
- A very merry Christmas
“So this is Christmas,” they sang, and today they’re right. Not the easiest of run-ups at Chez Tosh, with more trivial problems including the mighty Tesco delivering a Christmas shop a quarter of which was, by the 25th, beyond its sell-by date.
I mean, I’m sure they do their best, but they might guess that [...]
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