I can make bread
Regular readers will be aware of my obsession with this astonishing bread recipe. I make bread the whole time now, even in my sleep, and I think shop-bought bread (unless crafted by organic free-range 'artisan bakers' and costing over $8 a loaf) is rubbish and should be banned.
So great is my confidence that tomorrow I am going to learn how to bake even more difficult stuff with a man called Dominique Homo, who teaches French Canadians how to make croissants from a garage just outside Boisbriand. (A quite brilliant Christmas present from the French-Canadian pathologist with whom I live.)
The best radio programme in the world is not on Radio 4 (The Archers doesn't count)
Yes it is true. The best radio programme in the world is This American Life. This link is to a very good episode, and this link is to my favourite episode, in which a very funny lady consults with Phil Collins on breaking up with someone.
The only bad thing about This American Life is that it has a lot of listeners, and the law of averages means that some of them are going to be utter cocks, including this utter cock who posted on the This American Life page on Facebook (whether or not I am a cock for being on Facebook is another thing altogether).
(The context is that the podcast is currently free, and they're asking for donations in a not-annoying way):
(If you are wondering why this person is a cock, you should probably not be reading this web-blog.)
The perfect boots do exist
What is great about living in the bit of Canada where I live (where it is fucking cold for about half of the year), is that you think about clothes and stuff differently. In London, the perfect boots would have been some fancy-arsed nonsense, but here, the perfect boots are chosen with the following criteria in mind:1. Warm, up to -40.
2. Mean you are able to walk through snow of up to 1ft without snow falling inside top of boots.
3. Waterproof (see above)
4. Most importantly, mean you can walk on pavements covered in ice covered by frozen slush covered by snow, or (which is worse) just covered in a thin layer of ice, without falling on your arse every 2 seconds.
In the same vein, the perfect hat is one that is warm, covers your ears and not itchy. It is important not to look like a killer, but other than that what you look like in it is not that important.
Oh, and if you want the perfect boots, they are here.
England is weird, which is an actual fact.
Actual fact.
6 comments:
That 16-year-old's £100,000 wedding ("actual fact") is so tacky! I'm just shaking my head! Yes, England is weird - but could such a thing cross the pond and happen here in Canada???
it's true that this american life is great but it's not as great as RTE's documentary on one. much much greater.
i have had sorels since, oh, in the womb. practically.
and why are you posting my wedding picture????
"...how to make croissants from a garage just outside Boisbriand"
That's a daring use of ingredients he's got going on there.
omg! that wedding, and the dress!
It beggers belief, doesn't it?
And, it appears we can't get those boots here in our part of snowy Scotland, where it reaches -10 at times. I know it's not as cold as you, but we've also learned that it's not the weather that's bad, it's the clothes.
listen to wiretap, from montreal...cbc radio one with jonathan goldstein...hilarious
This American Life rocks. I get one show a week via podcast. I like the one about the two policemen setting fire to a squirrel inside someone's house.
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