Below are the ingredients of some Austrian* smoked cheese I bought earlier today. See if you can figure out which one freaked me out. Hint: it is not the E number. CHEESE, WATER, BUTTER, MILK PROTEIN, EMULSIFYING SALT (E 452),…
Realunching
I clicked on a link in the BBC website’s gardening section and got the following 404 message: The BBC gardening Techniques section has been realunched and some of the content may have moved or been removed. Use the links below…
Water and information shortage
There was a water cut in Sandy yesterday. I thought the shower had just conked out. We had some water in the tanks for the bath and so forth so I didn’t think much of it and went to work.…
Professional and non-professional librarians
Tim Coates has written a post suggesting that the distinction between professional and non-professional librarians should be abandoned, something I am whole-heartedly in favour of. He argues this from a public-library standpoint and with two main observations: That the librarians…
Train crashes again
This is a somewhat belated post on the Grayrigg train crash following on from my previous post on Ufton Nervet. I wonder whether this one will wind sil up as much as that one. There were a couple of decent…
Making Your Mind Up
Oh dear, we’re not going to win Eurovision again. Of course, given the geopolitical situation and all that, we’re probably not going to win for years anyway: the Finns were particularly blessed last year in straddling the Scandinavian and East…
Parsnips of love
In a break from the usual high-brow fare, some amusingly shaped vegetables. We got these parsnips from the River Nene organic vegbox scheme and I thought I’d share them with you: It is exactly a month since Valentine’s Day, after…
001 with a good excuse.
001. To be fair, I have acquired a daughter since my last post.
Blackpool mobile library service prepares for terror threat from space
As part of its Special Investigation into the Terror Threat From Space, the February 2007 issue of Viz (only free samples online) discusses the special measures to be undertaken by Blackpool’s Leisure, Tourism, and Commerce Committee to deal with the…
Comment me do
Please comment on this post. My previous attempts at comments rss seemed sluggish to appear in feed readers if they did at all. I guessed this was because my makeshift rss feed lacked guids. I have rectified this, which was…