Month: November 2012

  • Supermarket query: What happens when it’s your fault?

    I think it was my fault. After I bought the groceries in Lidl, I dutifully moved to the counter to pack it all away. Then, I noticed I’d spilt most of the blueberries on the ground. I started to pick them up, and the security guard came to help. I apologised, and he told me…

  • Coffee in Enoteca Delle Langhe, Italian Quarter, Dublin

    Good coffee in Dublin. Sounds straightforward, right? It’s not. Stale coffee. Burnt coffee. Coffee that tastes a little bit like soap. Machines that are never cleaned. Restaurants and cafes that otherwise play a blinder serving undigestable brown liquid that’s in its own special seventh taste category. It’s hard to send it back. “Excuse me, but…

  • Day of the Dead in 777

    Wait! Halloween’s not quite over yet. Over in Mexico,  the Day of the Dead celebrations run from October 31- November 2. Similar to our own ancient belief about the returning dead at his time of year, it’s thought the departed return to visit their families, so there’s a big public festival. To mark it, delicious…