Opinion

I’m no idiot when it comes to computers and the internet. Ever since my first little Commodore 64 and playing Ping-Pong on a black-and-white TV with my sister, I’ve been able to muddle my way through. Sometimes, things take a little longer to master, like programming Access or learning the basics of HTML, but the…

Now, I know many of you like my odd little recipes I post here from time to time, but this one is really special. When my wife told me she was cooking a lamb shoulder roast for dinner, I was very pleased indeed. However, when I discovered how she intended to cook it, I was…

When I was little I read, I read a lot. I didn’t care what I was reading, so long as I could turn the pages and devour a good story, I was happy. And then, I don’t remember when exactly, I somehow came by the notion that to show I was intellectual I should be…

Now, what can you do with a couple of ordinary looking fish? Fry them for a very, very long time. Believe it or not, this recipe delivers the most moist and juicy fish you’ve ever tasted. It’s just that before you get around to eating it, it seriously looks like you’ve cooked the living daylights…

I stumbled across a silly fact I wasn’t aware of today but probably should have been: Oscar Wilde only wrote one book: The Picture of Dorian Gray. So I went in search of similar ‘one-offs’ and, of course, ended up completely lost in lists of authors and musicians—the so-called ‘One Hit Wonders’. After Gone With…

Where have all the cowboys gone? My dear old dad would be rolling in his grave now if he knew that television and movies had abandoned them all. A good Western movie, TV program or paperback was my dad’s absolute favourite entertainment. So much so that Johnny Cash’s ‘Streets Of Laredo’ farewelled my dad at…