Turkeys and Jetlag

I can live with a lot of things (cold snaps in December, congestion charges in London, traffic in London – for that matter, anything related to driving through London), but jetlag is one of them.

cheese, muck and radio

Question: what do a Jewish radio station, a new pair of wellies (green) and over 2,000 flavours of cheese have in common?

Answer: they were all on my “to do” list first thing this morning.

I know you were probably expecting a much funnier punch line after such a teasing build-up, but at least it’s factually accurate. Believe me, the past twenty-four hours arguably rank amongst the most surreal of my life. If you want funny, how about me running through one of my trademark in a set of Chef’s whites and a pair of wellington boots?

testing, testing, 1,2,3,4,5…….

In 1982, the German and, frankly, slightly crazy, director Werner Herzog made a film called Fitzcarraldo. It tells the story of an Irishman named Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, who hopes to makes his fortune by collecting rubber in Peru (surely “mining” isn’t the correct word – insert joke about hitting rubber with pickaxes here). Fitzgerald hatches [...]

Proud of my Commonwealth connections

I was always told that pride was a bad thing. Pride, so say the people who like to say such things, comes before a fall. C.S. Lewis, a scholar and dreamer of faraway, imaginary worlds. wrote, “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.”

Video Killed The Radio Star…

It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was talking about my photo-shoot for the cover of dinner., and how peculiar the whole affair was. There is nothing quite like somebody telling you to act natural while they point a camera in your direction. Frankly, the whole process is distinctly unnatural. At first it’s perturbing, [...]