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If you have, like me, decided that there’s no point in Christmas (which is silly anyway) being confined to just one day of the year and that it therefore makes sense to extend the silliness into an entire week, you can keep yourself and a glass of wine busy on a Monday afternoon with, for [...]

So I’m sitting here trying to read about free will, and instead I am willed to the kitchen (why get a brand new one if you don’t spend every minute in it??). I want to bake, but what? If I had a bunch of girlfriends I’d invite them over for what the Danes called julehygge [...]

Since the philosophe gifted me with an ice-cream maker for our anniversary which is turning out to be a ridiculously fun way to use up wierd things in the (bar) cupboard, I suppose I should start a catalog of the thousand and one flavours which look set to emerge from our (fabulous) kitchen. So far: [...]

I have recently taken it upon myself to sit in on a philosophy class. I’ll get no university credits (who needs them?), but hopefully a chance to plug some of the large gaps I have in my philosophy repertoire. This may make me cleverer, or it may just make me a cleverer interlocutor. (Either way, [...]

Initially delighted at how many places are doing sushi and cocktail “specials”, it’s now become boring. Boring in the way that fashion becomes boring, because it’s become all too clear that restaurants are simply scrambling to keep up. Also boring because in just scrambling to be fashionable, too much of what you get is simply [...]