List of posts

  • GWB’s alien overlord spotted watching him in CNN footage – check out the face behind his right shoulder http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2007/08/31/bush.sots.mortgages.cnn

    Read more

  • Sign this

    http://www.littlegreenstreet.com/ – I may have mentioned this before, but read the information on the website and sign the petition; Camden Council – Camden! – are about to allow a bunch of breadheads to destroy one of London’s few remaining authentic Georgian streets. Ta.

    Read more

  • My inner geek…

    You shouldn’t believe everything you read on the Internet, apart from this. I was reading the excellent Cory Doctorow’s Boing Boing yesterday and came across a link to someone wittering on about how great a file server a new Linux distribution called Mint is. It’s based on Ubuntu, don’t you know. And I know the…

    Read more

  • All-new Dr Keyboard

    Just to show that I haven’t completely given up on computers, there’s an all-new Dr Keyboard website online right now. All singing, dancing and, er, blue. Oh yeah, and it’s FREE. As in beer. No more subscriptions, payments, whatever. Just click on the ads.

    Read more

  • Afghanistan opium at record high, says the BBC. Well, duh.

    Read more

  • Moving about

    Up in the hills near Grasse at the moment, cooking for an English family and their visitors. It’s great to be away from the noise and crowds of St Tropez, a town I would NEVER visit voluntarily. In fact, you should only go there if you have more money than sense – and, being a…

    Read more

  • Back again…

    To St Tropez, that is, with the family I worked for over the Ascension holiday back in May. Which means more traffic jams sitting in a ridiculous SWB Landrover Defender. A black one designed especially to absorb heat and focus it on the driver. And more ridiculous prices: €39/kilo for rougets anyone? Thought not. Unless…

    Read more

  • …St Tropez also has traffic jams. Lots of big ones, or rather one gigantic big one which just fills the town from end to end. I’m just back home now in Avignon after a long Ascension weekend there cooking for a private French family in their villa overlooking the town; mum, dad and a handful…

    Read more

  • Another job

    Well, four days with the possibility of more to come. Working for a French family in Saint Tropez up in the Parcs de Saint Tropez, cooking for a dozen of them over the forthcoming Ascension weekend. I like Saint Tropez, we went there a few years ago and I cooked in exchange for accommodation with…

    Read more

  • Where not to buy

    If you ever need a printer cartridge, do NOT, whatever you do, buy from eBay shop ‘DiscountCityRUS’. Run by the outstandingly rude ‘Norman’, their listings are deliberately confusing and, when you have a question, the only reply is ‘read the description’. Well duh, I did that – I’m asking questions because the description of the…

    Read more