Monthly Archives: August 2010

Slapper spaghetti

The particularly delicious Italian pasta sauce known as puttanesca contains olives and capers, along with tomatoes, anchovies, chilli and garlic. The literal translation of my current favourite meal of spaghetti puttanesca is of course “whore’s spaghetti” – though my usual … Continue reading

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How To Make Pancakes. Or: why I can’t follow instructions

I like to think I can make tasty dinner. That given a set of ingredients I can make something good. That I know my food, and that on any Masterchef taste test that I would come out on top. I … Continue reading

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When feminism is a dirty word

Labels have uses. How else would I know which lever arch file to put my cash audits in every week? Which button on my telephone calls HR, and which calls the FD? Labels for people certainly also have uses, but … Continue reading

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The gender of parenthood

The proliferation of “mother and baby” clubs gets to me sometimes. Its as if fathers don’t exist. I could understand an attempt not to alienate single parents (or homosexual parents) through constant references to mother and father, but what on … Continue reading

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Boiling pancakes?

In Innsbruck once we spent hours driving round looking for a hotel. Our usual default option of cheap and cheerful etap hotels didn’t extend to Austria, and we certainly hadn’t done something so sensible as research or book an overnight … Continue reading

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Back on familiar ground

I’ve always had a website – or at least I have since 1997 (or was it 1994? Let’s say 1995 for argument’s sake). I’m not sure what happened, but somewhere between LiveJournal and Facebook, my poor website just became too … Continue reading

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