You don’t have to boil chickpeas for forty minutes or more to make them edible, you can eat them raw if you just allow them to go through a natural process that converts the inedible dry starches into tender sweet tasting legumes. Raw Hummus with Sprouted Chickpeas Recipe Sprouted Chick Peas And Raw Hummus I […]
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I finally got around to setting up my gramaphone record player deck again yesterday after having a bit of a clear out during the week, to make some space. I’d mean meaning to do this for goodness knows how many years now, but you know how it is… The Rutles On the deck left over […]
This is the problem: Academic research findings are currently distributed mainly in expensive journals and publications. These are hard to find with restricted access and either unavailable online or only accessible by subscription via another expensive paywall. Often the source data is omitted. This reduces the number and type of people who can benefit from […]
You can see the Tunnelling and Underground Construction Academy building from the train between Manor Park and Ilford, on the mainline from Liverpool Street Station to Shenfield, or intercity to Ipswich and Norwich. I saw the earthworks when it was being built, but didn’t know what it was at the time. Now there’s an enormous […]
I’ve had a new fibre optical broadband and telephone service installed. The BT Openreach vans have been busy in our area for months. The fibre optic cables were laid under the streets and up the telegraph poles, ready for anybody who wants to take advantage of the higher data speeds available with fibre optics, and […]
The Routemaster bus will be back on the streets of London from Monday 27th Feb 2012. Londoners’ favourite bus – the only one you can hop on and off (except this one has doors) – has been redesigned by British designer Thomas Heatherwick. New Routemaster Bus in the rain Thomas Heatherwick (born 17 February 1970) is […]
Some illustrations used during the January 2011 Songwriters Circle Challenge. The next Cohort is due to start on Monday February 6th 2012 if you’d like to join us and kick start your songwriting in just 30 days Tags Tagging Taken January 29, 2011 at 8:19 am George Orwell penguin Why I Write for The Songwriters […]
HaverFolk News 26th January, 2012 Hi all, Newsletter time once again with a report of last nights’s Andy Roberts feature evening from John the Fox. Havering report 25 January: A splendid turnout for our guest artist Andy Roberts (Haverfolk’s Andy not the Liverpool Scene one) meant the number of floor spots was restricted (the guv’nor […]
YouTube allows the rediscovery of highlights from very distant memory, in this case the seminal TV series ‘Do Not Adjust Your Set” featuring the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. Here they are performing “Hunting Tigers Out In Indiah”: “I really did see them in black and white!” Somebody called ‘Dormouse’ in the alt.fan.bonzo-dog newsgroup put […]
Hello, I’m cooking fresh fish with cider over a trangia camping stove in sunny Galicia, northern Spain. With videography by Evan Roberts, this youTube is pretty self explanatory. The actual location is a campsite at Camping Moreiras, O Grove, Pontevedra, Galicia. The fish, a whole monkfish, came from the fish market on the harbour at O Grove itself, […]
