This morning there was quite a fog like I haven’t seen in quite a few years, I took a picture of it. Didn’t seem to effect my journey to work, well, the Piccadilly Line was a bit messed up but didn’t delay me. Usual day at work, felt cold but again they have no heating, [...]
Jan
27
Father's Birthday
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This past Friday was my father’s birthday so on Saturday we went down to see my parents. My father seemed to be doing ok, less confused than he normally is. We had fun with the staff in the care home who are very good. The journey home was interesting. Some guy open a bottle with [...]
Jan
25
Blackberry Harming My Brains?
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Don found this BBC story relating to usage of cell phones during the night. Basically there has been research carried out by US and UK universities which linked cell phone usage to sleep related issues. Part of the recommendation was not to use your cell phone last thing at night and not to have it [...]
Jan
23
Coffee seems to be a lot in the news lately. Researchers say that it has been linked to miscarriage, McDonald’s entry in the coffee market (source: Conde Nast), Starbucks growth problems in North America but expanding elsewhere (see CNN Profile) and this plonker visits 8,000 Starbucks worldwide. I was very surprised to see Dunkin’ Donuts [...]
Jan
20
Christmas Pudding Review
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Saw this story on the BBC website about a Which report on how luxury Christmas Puddings came down the bottom of the league of taste testing. Well, I thought I would do my own taste test. In my test I always went for the luxury branded pudding. I didn’t get one from Tesco which won [...]
Jan
19
Haven’t been to Harrods for ages, probably years in fact, so today we did a little trip…and spent more money than we had intended. We had a very good lunch at Xin Dim Sum which is a restaurant inside the food hall. It was very expensive, about 4.50GBP per dish, so I was kind of [...]