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Was it Jah Shaka? ;)

I ate some spanish "blue" cheese once that was actually green. It fizzed on your tongue. I wouldnt go past that again :confused: I had another spanish blue that was wrapped in leaves recently and I've heard of cheese wrapped in nettles. It sound a bit faddish but has anyone partaken?

Gorgonzola and beetroot for lunch on friday. Has anyone else ever been to La Fromagerie? They've got two outlets, one in town and the other up at Highbury Barn. It's a bit poncy but the range and quality is outstanding. For English cheeses Paxton & Whitfield on Jermyn Street is very good...

Sounds of the Universe did a field recording album in Haiti - all voodoo drumming IIRC. You might contact them cos that's a pretty harsh environment/subject. With the technology available it ought to be easier than ever. Let Woebot be your inspiration.

Jenks, try The Nelson on North Road for pre-match drinks. Its mostly for home fans, they're pretty cool about kids and it isn't full of moody twats. I make no claims for the beer though and the jukebox is atrocious. Sorry, getting well off-thread here. Sport, er, yeah...hedge-jumping anyone?

You could leave it by genre/artist/format or by any other descriptive means. Any chattel must be capable of identification by description so your executors know what to do. Defining by genre can be problematic - where does ardkore end and jungle begin? When someone wants to leave a lot of...

From a tax point of view, Peelie's collection might be worth around the Nil Rate Band for Inheritance Tax purposes (£263,000 this year). Whilst there would be no tax to pay if everything passed to his wife it would be taxable as part of her estate in due course. There is a real compulsion to...

At various times I could quite happily watch hours of coverage of darts, golf, gymnastics, athletics, snooker, football, weightlifting, kabbadi(sp?), etc. I'm still holding out against the Murdoch lie machine though. There was a pretty deep schism at school between sportsmen and music heads...

Don't tell K-Punk, but I'm a probate solicitor. Some people do make provision to pass on their collections to specific people or institutions by their will. Others let it pass into the residue of their estate. In the latter case it is either appropriated by one of their relatives (ie taken in...

Most "professions" - if such things can be said to exist any more - have some form of qualification procedure. There is usually one or more path to qualification but if Craner wants to become a stockbroker he will need to sit his FSA (Financial Services Authority) exams and then apply for jobs...

With crisps in Art and Beer in politics there must be room for a food forum. World of Stelfox used to drop the odd recipe last summer and it would be great to see some more of that. They weren't just recipes but evocations of hot summer days in London before I fled to the coast and not the...

In a just world, Luka, you would have your own radio show. Tube Drivers rake it in and they get about 7 weeks holiday a year, very little contact with the general public (except for the leapers, obv :eek: ) and dropping the odd pearl of wisdom through the tannoy system. Sounds ideal for you...

If you like Oona, Craner, try and get to meet her Dad. Preston King is a professor of political philosophy and one of the most impressive people I have had the pleasure to have met. A very cool future father-in-law ;)

My first copy of "Ascension" made for a noisy christmas at Randy's shack. :D

Driving through Cambridgeshire I saw three scarecrows in a field. Their legs were formed from old trousers tied at the bottom inna Kid Creole/zoot suit way. The trouser leg of one of them had come undone and was flapping back and forth in the wind. It looked very much as if it were doing the...

Zebra on Hadleigh Downs! I was on holiday on Elba once and the dour hotelier, nonplussed at our excitement having spotted wild boar, asked if we would like to take all theirs. I would as it goes, and for two reasons. Firstly, because no animal trots like a wild boar and secondly, the way...

Room 102, Royal Victoria Hotel, Pisa.

I bet the quasi-facist stomp of "We Will Rock You" and the Glitter Band go down well at the regular knees- up in and around South Waziristan. The Quo, obviously. ;) IIRC the taliban took a fairly dim view of all music, not just western or western influenced pop. On the other hand, music is a...

Tony Thompson (sp?) is the crime writer for the Observer and he always impresses me with the depth of his research. He obviously has an extensive contact network which he uses to give a full picture from seemingly discreet events. He talks to the right people about something it is often...

For pure WTF I agree with jd_ and bipedal, it's got to be the Hammerhead. How did it evolve to that? I witnessed a shark dissection at the Durban Sharks Board earlier this year. No human arms or licence plates in the stomach, just a load a mackerel. I almost asked for my money back. :D The...