literary rhapsodies, emotional outbursts, bad puns and creative output from a slightly distracted and highly disturbed mind with a big heart and an occasionally dark sense of humour
In 1946, a young couple sets off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifiying, it alters their lives forever. Quoth the blurb. It’s my fourth Ian McEwan after Atonement, Solar and The Children Act. When I…
Ah, Netflix and me. What an intense relationship. Netflix, always checking up on me. “Are You Still Watching You?” when I binged the first season of You must have been the freakiest question I ever read on a screen and almost as meta as Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch episode. “Yes, Netflix, I do. I still watch…
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” [Charles M. Schulz] A new, rich recipe with lots and lots of chocolate, chocolate sprinkles, cacao, Lindt Lindor chocolate, cream, coffee and rum. DISCLAIMER> If you don’t wanna read the intro, you may scroll down to CHAPTER I I was sitting…
It’s name is White Gin. Macaronesian White Gin. And we’re a match made in heaven. But before we get to drink, it’s time for some geographical ground work: Macaronesia is a collection of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean. Vulcanic in origin, they are unique in their climate and vegetation. We gonna zoom in…
The Canary Islands – all-year holiday destination for all desires from party to nature. For me, it was my first mid/season aka winter holiday since working at the theatre (hooray!). I was in desperate need of Vitamin D, looked up not-too-far-away places and decided on Agaete, Gran Canaria, as my designated residency. Agaete is located…
And here I am, with yet another American pie recipe, straight from the US, and intended to be the sweet culmination of our Friendsgiving Dinner – an evening of all-American food traditions, from turkey to stuffing to sweet potato mash with marshmellows (yuk). However, as I was assured by my American fellows, one does not…
I’m a freestyle chef. The kitchen is my open stage, and my recipes are nothing but the key for culinary jazz impro. There are people – and maybe I read or heard that somewhere, maybe it was a meme or some actual person told me – who say that baking, in comparison to cooking, is…
In February 2018, after a 2-day workshop on time management, I decided to manage my time by taking time for myself, self care, as they call it – and do something I’d benefit from both physically and psychologically: I went running. Once a week, every Friday. DJ laughed at me and made the – spoiler…
Italia – the land of pasta, vino e tiramisu; of sole mio e la dolce vita. And where I spent most of August 2018. Needless to say, wherever you are in Italy, it is beautiful. At least, wherever I have been so far. Castagneto Carducci, Cecina, San Gimignano, Volterra, Pisa, Napoli, Sorrento and Pompeji for…
Dee made me join the Pottermore universe after I introduced her to the Potterless podcast, so we introduced each other to more or less the same if you pardon the pun (and there are gonna be lots of puns to be pardoned and now you’ve been warned). I started straight off with getting sorted into…