Things from the internet:

1. A government e-petition to "Make wrongly describing a casserole with a pastry lid as a pie a criminal offence." (Thanks to Will for the tip-off.)

I'm torn; clearly this is a cause after my own heart, but I feel slightly bad about wasting Government time. On the other hand, as onebyone pointed out, the "review" stage has ( Read more... )

Early March, you say? Doesn't that mean it's about time I wrote about the annual rapper dancing competition, DERT? Why yes, it is.

( Going for a Burton )

Well, as some of you may recall my task last weekend was to work out how to make beer cake. Cake which tasted like, and contained, beer.

Preliminary results from the beery-cake investigation board are now in.

( The report is quite long. It does contain pictures of cake. )

So... anyone got any ideas on how to bake a beer-flavoured cake ( Read more... )

And while we're talking about packaging changes...

( They're messing with my beer! )

Sitting down with my tuna, vegetable and noodle stir-fry I thought I'd rescue one of those bottles of lager languishing in the fridge after Frances' party. There turned out only to be two left - a bottle of Stella, and a bottle of Brahma ( Read more... )

So, suppose I wanted to start a petition can anyone recommend a decent online site for doing such a thing ? This isn't to be a Government petition, but should look reasonably respectable so I can pass a link to the institution which I would like to act on it ( Read more... )