In the last few weeks my mind has been like a candle flickering in the wind. Â Stretched to its limits with studying and some intense work assignments, my poor brain deserves a break. Â Strangely though all I can think about doing this coming holiday is curling up... 
If the roses are anything to go by we have signs of summer.  It’s true we’ve been basking in blue skies and gentle clouds with no rain for weeks but I refuse to tempt fate.  Let’s just say that the view from my office window looks inviting.  Thankfully as... 
I have a recalcitrant basset fighting my Macbook so he can sit on my lap. For now, the laptop computer has possession of the lap, but a basset snout can be a forceful instrument so you can be sure that this pushy basset will eventually get his own way. Bassets do not... It is a painful thwack to the head when the obvious hits me, especially when accompanied by that hateful know-it-all voice inside your head that says, “IÂ told you so”. Â Professionally I’d call this having ‘insight’ but since I’m... Who’d have thought that the study of food would have such heavy weight academic pretensions? It’s been a sobering start to the latest unit in my course after being thrown knee deep in the Mythologies of 20th century French philosopher Barthes. His... 
