Our first tour took us sporadically through some of the letters twixt A and L, with occasional photographs of the actual food, as the outstandingly elegant Dr Pockless and I took on the task of cooking through the alphabet. We … Continue reading
I entirely and completely owe the inspiration for this post and the last five months of cookery to my brother the honourable gourmand Dr Pockless, who didn’t fight me when I stole the idea, cooked up by him and his … Continue reading
If the purpose of this project is to show Bernard the great wealth of movie culture that existed before he was born, then Ocean’s Eleven was an abject failure. For on this evening, he was in a Sad And Grumpy … Continue reading
The Matrix is a movie about a man called Neil who has a weird dream in which he is the Chosen One, and cannot tell whether he exists in someone else’s dream, or everyone else exists in his. In his … Continue reading
Tonight we shall be playing Codenames, a fun wordgame played in teams. We’ll be logging in from 7pm, but think of it as a drop-in, and join us whenever you feel like it, for as long as you feel like … Continue reading
The nights are getting lighter, the days are getting brighter. Bulbs are poking through the cold earth. Birds are singing. And yet we are no nearer the end of this thing, and it’s still bloody cold. Warm your cockles at … Continue reading
Clash of the Titans has come up in conversation a couple of times during recent Cocktail Hours, so when Pete proposed the Great Uborka Movie Project of 2021 (still to be properly named), this was my first suggestion. I was … Continue reading
Let me just tell you right now, I have no truck with Dry January, nor with Veganuary, nor with any other faddish means of making this dreariest month in such uncertain times any worse than it already is. What, I … Continue reading