vfth : older stuff : February 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
A week before the Avian flu outbreak at the Bernard Matthews' turkey farm in Norfolk, a leaving lunch was held to celebrate the retirement of the British Meat Producers Association director, Peter Scott.
During the lunch, a speech was given by the BMPA President, commending Scott for his tenacity, "steering the industry through BSE, Foot & Mouth Disease and classical swine fever", and quipped "the only thing missing is Asian flu, which starts to look like a weakness in your CV".
On the 2rd February, the day after the MMPA made the press release about Scott's retirement, the Matthews' outbreak was confirmed as H5N1.
I'll bet this BMPA person wants to eat his words... just remember to cook them properly, as recommended by the Food Standards Agency. [more]
Posted by Mike @ 11:06 PM GMT [Link]
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
At one point, in a built up area, you were seldom far from a Fish and Chip shop. Now, they seem to be a dying breed. The Great British treat being marginalised and forced out by never ending streams of Klone Fried Chicken, McNastys, toxic doner kebab shops and other slightly dubious take-aways of various origins.
Some of these outlets purport to sell "fish and chips", but it's a poor imitation - often industrial pre-battered frozen fish pieces which are cut to that funny 4-sided polygon shape, and frozen chips from a box, rather than chips from a potato. All very Findus.
In London, there are handful of Greeks and other Mediterraneans now running the few remaining chippies, but even the best ones can't hold a candle to a real seaside chippy!
There are times when I could kill a decent plate of fish and chips, but there isn't anything nearby - just a stream of "copycat" chicken shops and kebabs.
Maybe, in the words of Basil Fawlty, I should just "move closer to the sea (or preferably in it)"?
How about New Zealand? They do fish and chips pretty well!
Posted by Mike @ 12:19 AM GMT [Link]
Sunday, February 11, 2007
I finally got around to hooking up an Airport Express to my lounge hi-fi. This rocks.
I am a happy camper, despite the fact that Apple appear to keep cow-towing to the media industries by repeatedly crippling the otherwise useful protocol that is DAAP. [more]
Posted by Mike @ 02:30 PM GMT [Link]
Can't sleep too well. Only got home from Canada this week. 2nd day back, and despite taking a daylight flight, and trying to put my long-suffering body clock in order, I'm up at 3am. Made myself useful writing slideware for the LINX56 meeting... got tonnes of stuff to do. [more]
[older stuff : idx] [vfth : idx]
