Category Archives: Intermission

Cooking on Shrove Tuesday

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In this time of austerity and belt tightening, I thought it might be nice to turn to the wisdom of Mrs Beaton to brighten the day with her much neglected recipe for richer pancakes. You won’t see cooking like this from Jamie Oliver, Jack Monroe and co. Ingredients: 6 eggs 1 pint of cream 1/4 lb of loaf sugar 1 glass of sherry 1/2 teaspoonful of nutmeg flour Mode: Ascertain that the eggs are extremely fresh, beat them well, strain and mix with them the cream, pounded sugar, wine, nutmeg, and as much flour as will make the batter nearly … Continue reading →

The years news in cards against humanity

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As other people have observed this year has been the year of the offended and looking back through all the stories I’ve muttered about here or over on Facebook the amount of offense taken this year has been quite impressive. So what better way to look back at the years news and all that offense than with the Anonymong 2014 review Cards Against Humanity? See how many stories you recognise, remind yourself of who offended who and why, plus a few other things that happened. Plus of course mix up the stories in new and even more offensive fashions. It’s … Continue reading →

Stupidity in political memes

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I know that raging against stupidity on the internet is a pointless exercise and best avoided, and I’ve no great love for Monsanto. However I’ve not yet met a windmill I won’t tilt against, so humour me on this. The image here has been going around on that bastion of deep thinking and intellectual debate that is Facebook, highlighting how we can’t possible trust GM foods from Monsanto as those foods kill insects!! Now I’m quite happy to not trust Monsanto as far as I could throw kitten kong, and have suggested to people the game of “name a Monsanto … Continue reading →