When I first became vegetarian around 4 years ago, I thought I hated tofu. Probably because the only previous experience I’d had with it was my mum’s disastrous attempt at her own garlic tofu recipe, which was literally just a…
In his now-notorious beat poem Storm, Tim Minchin takes a disparaging look at propagators of natural remedies and alternative medicine, summarising his point with the famous line ‘You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? Medicine.’…
Missed part one of my Monino Museum blog? Read it here. After a walk around red square it was time to catch the metro to the hotel, I was staying just outside the city in the Maxima Irbis Hotel in…
I visit the Space Shuttle Enterprise and the Russian equivalent Buran – in two museums, half the world apart, to explore the similarities and differences of both craft. Introduction to My Space Quest Exploration on Earth has slowly declined over…
We took our trip to Venice on a spur of the moment, having returned home from Los Angeles two weeks earlier we had a pot of money left over and holiday blues. In hindsight this was probably a mistake; still…