Your coffee sucks, apparently, and indeed, much of the coffee we consume does suck.
Some years ago, while I was working on a now-defunct magazine for the hotel and restaurant industry (called, prosaically, Hotel & Restaurant) I was treated to a presentation on how to prepare good coffee from a coffee distributor.
That meeting changed my attitude [...]
Now, I love a woman in a leather dress as much as the next straight man. So, the news that the above Marks & Spencer dress is flying off the shelves (it’s out of stock only a week after it was launched) should be enough to put a smile on my face for weeks, or [...]
This, or something very much like it, is my dream for the near future:
We are moving out of our two-bedroom flat and into a proper house with an upstairs, a garden and sheds. More than that, we are leaping from the edgy Islington/Holloway borders (within shouting distance of the Arsenal stadium and the prison) to [...]
Another one from the “press releases for my old job, but I’m still interested” file:
Look at that - lovely log cabin under construction. Canada? The US? Switzerland, maybe?
Uh, no. It’s Norfolk.
Mike Balls of the Log House Company is building log houses in the UK, and this one is going up for a Norfolk family. The [...]
