My first cookery lesson at secondary school was how to make a hot milky drink. I forget which kind of drink that was. I'd been doing much more complicated cooking prior to that, but the vague memory of that class has just come into my mind ( Read more... )

Last night Fee and I gave in to the demon drink and we went out for cycling and outdoor drinking. Got 2 litres of 5.2% cider and cycled down to the south bank of the Thames. Watched some skateboarders skating (I didn't find it interesting). Drank the cider and cycled up to Dionysus the chip shop/kebab shop on Oxford St to get some proper chips and ( Read more... )