Sichuan tea

Yummy, super yummy tea prepared by my lady wife during a day-long cooking course marathon birthday present. Especially impressed by the saliva chicken and ma po tofu.

Hottest chillies in the world

Not only is the article very interesting, it was great to see Owen’s folks hit Slashdot, among others. Summary: HOT!, fatty drinks help, worm farm runoff stimulates the fruit.

Domestic workers in visa protest

I read this headline in the BBC news feed (now changed on the article) and wondered how this piece of HK current affairs (helpers are not currently allowed to claim permanent residence after seven years like most other workers) had made it to the BBC front page. In...
Off paddling

Off paddling

Nice to don Seagods red and black again and looking forward to competing in the feeder competition in two weeks for next year’s internationals. The nice afternoon helps too. As does Handel on Spotify on my phone (tunnel mobile internet rocks).

Financial markets and the West

Der Spiegel is convinced that the financial sector is once again an imminent threat to the world economy. (As I wrote that I found myself wondering if financial markets were the world economy. They aren’t of course, just as the occasional shutting down of...