Last night I had Sheila and Lee around for a meal and catch up natter. For the food I tried a variant of a stir-fry recipe Fliss taught me. I was quite happy I've finally seem to have got the hang of making Egg Fried Rice without having it all …

There are many ways to prepare for the afternoon session of the 21st Stockport Beer and Cider Festival. I suspect that staying up until 4 in the morning after visiting a few of Manchester's finer drinking establishments followed by a bit of dancing is not one of them. Despite flagging …

It's easy to make your mind switch off by following a fixed daily routine. Things are likely to go wrong when you mess with that routine even with a few small details. For example my daily commute involves reading the free sheet, listening to the radio on the way in …

I got my electricity bill this morning. The headline figure of being ~?330 in debt despite the ?94/month direct debit spurred me to actually phone in a more up to date reading. PowerGen, unlike British Gas, always seem to send their meter readers around during the week. The plea …

Fliss has headed back down to the big smoke after spending a lovely two weeks visiting up north. While work has been going crazy it's been really nice to come home to my lovely girlfriend. I'm more than a little sad we are seperated by geography again. On the plus …