Thinking about cooking and about getting things done

I love cooking. One of my signature dishes is “spag bol“. Except the pasta I use is not spaghetti. And the sauce I make is not what most people would consider to be bolognese. Think of it as the Trigger’s Broom of cooking. If I wanted to be precise I would call the  dish gramigna alla … Continue reading “Thinking about cooking and about getting things done”

Voyages of discovery

Of late, I’ve been spending quite some time thinking about longitudinal studies; a number of you have engaged with me with encouraging feedback after my most recent post on this, on the impact of change and the time it takes to assess that impact. There are many reasons for this, but there’s a principal one. … Continue reading “Voyages of discovery”

Musing gently about the impact of change and the time it takes

We’re all very connected now, and news travels fast. There was a time when what constituted “news” used to be corroborated before it was sent on its way. There was a time when news had to be new to be news. There was a time when news had to be true to be news. Those … Continue reading “Musing gently about the impact of change and the time it takes”

Going to the match: more thoughts on tolerance

    I wonder what LS Lowry would have made of it. As a teenager in Calcutta during the 1960s and 1970s, I never quite experienced the sensation of “going to the match” the way that Lowry had portrayed. We went to the matches. Matches, plural. Not match. Because all the stadia were in the … Continue reading “Going to the match: more thoughts on tolerance”

Some Like It Hot: A Paean To Chillies

This is not meant to be a post about the Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis film by Billy Wilder. I didn’t actually watch it till late 1999, some forty years after it was made. It wasn’t on my bucket list. I was 42 by then, and so I was pretty careful about any new entrants … Continue reading “Some Like It Hot: A Paean To Chillies”