Chanze is, indeed, a fine thing

The couple beside us were kind of hilarious. Well, the girl was. Their conversation went like this:
Her: Oh, it doesn’t say the chicken is cornfed
Him: I’m sure it’s fine
Her: I like corn…
Him: Um, it’s the chicken…the chicken is cornfed…
Her: Yes, I like corn
Him: No! You don’t get the corn!
That was the main course. He didn’t [...]

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The beginning of the descent

Yesterday, I adulted it up a notch. That is to say, I joined the real world of people who commute and wear professional clothes and dumbly do their make-up in the bathroom mirror at 7am. I realise that ‘adult it up a notch’ may have somewhat dubious and worrying intimations when the previous post is [...]

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The Last Supper

Assuming you’re sitting on death row, about to be fried or lethally injectified for perhaps having slaughtered some old lady (or maybe something less reprehensible – let’s assume that they’ve got the wrong man, but you’re about to meet your maker anyway), what do you choose for your last meal? It no longer matters about [...]

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The nicest meal I’ve had in a long time

It comes time to commit another food reviewer sin. As if not drinking wine and not caring for tea and coffee weren’t bad enough; I’m going to reveal my new favourite place to eat. It’s been said that reviewers don’t write about their favourite eaterie because it becomes overrun with punters and not half as [...]

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