Merry Christmas!
Posted in Life on 24 Dec 2007 at 18:06
To all a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2008! May it bring you everything you dream of 
Christmas is coming!
Posted in Life on 23 Dec 2007 at 17:59
When does it feel like Christmas? When you’re doing your last minute shopping to the tune of a brass band braving the arctic conditions to play carols in the street.
Lovely
A brass band play to a surprisingly quiet Swindon town centre yesterday
Why do bagels have a hole?
Posted in Random on 22 Dec 2007 at 18:56
Ok, they’re cool an all that, they taste good and come in different types, but aren’t they essentially a fancy bread roll with a hole in it? What does the hole give you?
- Less to eat: it might taste better than a bread roll, but there just isn’t as much to eat!
- A mess: while the bagel has a hole, the layer of filling often doesn’t. An unfortunate filling incident this afternoon left a dollop of chicken, bacon and mayo on the floor at Paddington Station 
- They’re not a donut: when eating my bagel I always feel cheated, because if it’s a doughy ring, then it should be sweet and maybe covered in sprinkles. Instead it’s a bread roll.
So why, why do bagel’s have holes? They’ve got to make them harder and more expensive to produce, not that it matters, they just charge us more than a bread roll anyway!
Some donuts have holes, while others don’t. Their makers have recognised that adding filling necessitates an enclosing structure to avoid mess…
