So its all been a bit quiet on the Columbia front, you may have noticed. Because my current lurghi has meant I have two distinct and exclusive modes at the moment. I’m either travelling or sleeping. Nothing else. I go see a city, or a coffee plantation or, yesterday, a cloud forest and then, I – Read More-
Are you familiar with the word ‘schvach’? Its yiddish. Its pronounced ‘shvu’- then a ‘ch’ in the most guttural you can manage. Like all yiddish words still in common usage, its fabulously expressive and can mean 200 different things. All of which, in this instance, relate to ‘weak’ or ‘feeble’ or inadequate in some way. – Read More-
We love a winter holiday. Mel ‘needs’ sunshine because she’s SADS and I ‘need’ to go with. To carry the bags. And buy water. Loads and loads of water. So come Christmas time, we’re gone. And because you need to go far and wide for sun at this time of year, we book early. To – Read More-
Yesterday morning Spurs were in 7th place in the league, just behind (fucking!!!) Burnley and with a resurgent Leicester creeping northwards up the table behind us. That was horrible. 7th place is not nice. And with not even a UEFA place for 6th place this year, 7th is… just shit. I know, I know, there – Read More-
Everyone’s talking about Bitcoins. Shame we didn’t have conversation a decade ago when they were worth nothing and 100 dollars’ worth bought then would now be worth about $1.6 billion. But no. They told us it was a ‘fad’. That it was a way for money launderers, dark webbers, drug dealers and arms buyers to – Read More-
I’m going to talk about the weather. Because I’m British. Its what we do. But normally its about the likelihood of rain, the possibility of sunshine, the incoming winds from Siberia. I want to talk about proper ‘weather’. Weather with a !!!! Like yesterday weather. Because snow does fall in northern Europe. And here’s the – Read More-
When Heung-Min Son first arrived at Tottenham, we gave him his own, special song. It went like this: “He shoots, he scores, he eats your Labradors, Heung-Min Son, Heung-Min Son… (repeat until bored)…” As this was a rather unsubtle and mildly racist comment referring to the player’s Korean roots, reeking of facile stereotyping and unfair – Read More-
What do we do about Mo? ‘E’s a luvvely boy, was a medical student at Exeter, specialising in children’s heart surgery, spent his spare time working voluntarily in a food bank and helping little old ladies cross the street, then he went to Syria. Joined ISIS, murdered 396 Christian women after raping them first, slaughtered – Read More-
If you think too long about Brexit you simply go insane. Having placed your mentality on a merry-go-round of contradiction, illogicality and total fucking lunacy. To leave Europe will cost us (and even this is only an estimate) £40billion. In ‘obligations’ to fund stuff we’d already agreed on but won’t (if we do ever leave) – Read More-
I think its due to my upbringing. Society’s to blame. But whatever the reason, I’m not keen on ‘rules’, particularly when it comes to food. Yet even worse are people who feel the need to find loopholes in those rules rather than just ignoring them. As if that gives them the right to be somehow – Read More-