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I have only ever been to Ireland before on press junkets, either for computer companies – and none of those since about 2001 – or, back in my much younger days, visiting the North to write about The Troubles. so my previous experience of the country has been either that they’re a bunch of ornery…
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/13498074@N03/ Yes, that’s snow. Yes, it’s cold. Yes, I miss France. Oui, de la neige; oui, il fait froid; oui, la France me manque.
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I arrived in Ireland exactly four weeks ago today, touching down at Dublin airport with 74 kilos (Kilos! not pounds! Kilos!) of baggage, managing to pay for just 14 of them as excess over the 20 I was supposed to be allowed to bring with me. The worst bit was not the weight – my…
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Our weekly classes are settling into a nice rhythm now that we’re just over half-way through our year here at the Ecole d’Hotellerie in Avignon. We cook one dish in the morning, a second in the afternoon and have an hour-long lunch break followed by one hour of classroom lecturing in the middle. And I…
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I loved Arthur C Clarke’s books from when I was about 9 or 10. I read them all in the town library, after the librarian allowed me an ‘adult’ library ticket as I’d already read just about everything in the children’s section. Wow, what an eye-opener his books were, what an imagination. How cool to…
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And a very cool stage prop, too. Dr Jill Bolte Taylor is a brain scientist (I paraphrase) who woke up one morning having a stroke, and describes here what it was like to watch it from the inside with her scientific background. Good talk, and one to watch if you know someone who’s had a…
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Nice article ‘Always in the kitchen at parties‘ – on the Cheftalk site where you’ll find some of my stuff too.
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We’re having a baby! Just found out today (20 week scan) she’s a girl. We’ll be calling her Scarlett, works in French as well as English. Due early May.
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