How do you celebrate another year of the life of The Hungry One? The Captain of systems and processes has nutted out a template, an implementation plan so to speak, and at this stage of the project it seems to work pretty well. Step one; take the boy on the day in question to dinner […]
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For an activity so ripe with anticipation, could it be any less fun? I’m not a particularly anxious person. I sleep very well. But there is one recurrent dream that manages to take daisy soft sleep and churn it into curdle of stomach heaving, sheet turning panic. This is how it goes: I’m due at […]
It may have started with Mc Donalds. It seems skiing flaccid fries down the brown skids of caramel on a sundae was just the beginning. From little things, big things grow. Even the golden arches of gluttony can help you learn a life lesson. It’s something along the lines of the importance of the salt […]
I was built for many things; placing faces of actors in movies; making home-made Mexican, knowing when Clinique free gift time will descend; exciting yoga teachers with full lotus and blowing raspberries on a baby’s fat tummy are among them. There are things that I am not built for. Remembering to shut drawers, doing cartwheels, […]
The Hungry One has a very special relationship with schnitzel. Apart from Valhrona chocolate and a fridge stocked with obscure European beers, there aren’t many things which light up his eyes in the same way. I’m pretty sure it connects to two things; fond remembrance of his mum’s cooking being one, and his eternal quest […]