Hairy crabs

Thanks to Bruce and Ming for breaking our hairy crab cherry in proper Shanghai style. And to Lesley for putting up with it all. Unusual for steamed crabs to beat the rugby for interest, but they did. Personally, the males won out, but each gender had its own goodness....
UK and Ireland festival

UK and Ireland festival

If the rugby wasn’t enough, CitySuper has piled it on in its celebration of the best food our great nations have to offer. Yup, the potato. In five varieties.
The small world

The small world

Fabulous micro photography. All of them are worth a second look, but I found the jumping spider eyes the freakiest.

Kindle X-Ray and the death of the book

Great new feature on the new Kindles allows you to follow thinking in a book well beyond the boundaries of the book itself. A sort of algorithmically guessed set of mini-internet searches that you might want to do. I already love having a dictionary built in to look...