Posts

So, it’s official: Danes are among the happiest people in the world. And how do you stay happy when you pay up to 80% tax? Just be ordinary. That’s the secret, according to sources in The Times, at least, who maintain that ‘the celebration of ordinariness is a recipe for contentment’. It all sounds fairly [...]

The philosophe asked me that question that other day and, being in the doubly uncomfortable position of not having a good answer (I suggested the four components of protein, starch, fats and …?), and getting nowhere with my work today, I’ve done a little research. According  to Gary Martin of The Phrase Finder, there are [...]

It was to celebrate the acquisition of a fine pair of boots that the executive body of signwithane.com (that would be me, and my webmaster-philosopher-betrothed) went off for the night to the valley of monkeys, situated close to one famously long beach in Cape Town. We saw no live monkeys, but we did park next [...]

‘What’s new about process cheese?’ So reads the heading of a press release from Dairy.com, which details the new move (in the US, of course) to introduce flavoured cheese to get the kiddies to eat more of it: ‘Most consumers think of process cheese as orange American slices. But it may soon come in red, [...]

from Brillat-Savarin: ‘Fish, taken collectively in all their species, offer the philosopher an endless source of meditation and surprise. The various forms of these strange creatures, the sense which they lack, the limited powers of those which they possess, the influence on their habits of the element in which they live and breathe and move, [...]