Many of my readers will already be aware that I have already published a cookbook, The Un-Cookbook: The Art of Cooking without Recipes, that is available in both hardback and softcover through booksellers and online as well as through the Kindle bookstore. N.B. Don’t forget that this makes a GREAT gift for Christmas or for …
I recently found out that I was going to be a grandfather for the first time. This was, and is still, a great piece of news. With our daughter, Christa at 30 years of age and our son, Ian, at 28, we were certainly ready for the news. Nevertheless, it marks the symbolic transition from middle-age …
“Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he …
“PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than …
It all began with a simple typo! Now, I will be the first to admit that I am not good at checking my work. The version of WordPress that I use does have a built-in spell-checker and I do avail myself of its services 90% of the time but in this instance it would not …
It’s the ONLY law! But it is man’s law not nature’s … If you believe that you actually own something, anything at all, we encourage you to think again; very carefully… In reality, the concept of ownership is one of the cornerstones of almost all modern societies. However, it turns out that it is a …
Today, I had just finished reading about privacy concerns regarding FB’s policy towards sharing personal information across different partner sites when I stumbled upon this gem of a conversation. I am not happy to report that it involves some of my own family. Obviously, privacy is not uppermost in the minds of the individuals in …
[ad#GoogleText468x15] I consider myself extremely privileged to have been present at the one hundredth birthday celebration of Aunt Dina shown here! I was reminded of this event earlier this week as I came across a couple of online widgets that purported to be able to give you a guideline as to how long you might …
It’s funny how a seemingly trivial event can touch off a train of thought that ends up quite far from its original trajectory! That’s exactly what happened to me on the week-end when our next door neigbour mistakenly greeted me as Dorothy (my wife) across the fence. I was in the middle of hanging washing …
