Alive & Twitching

I don’t know if this is borne out by statistics, but the impression I have is that very few men of my parents’ generation did any cooking and that, in my generation, men who cook regularly at home are still in the minority. It is quite different with young adults. Both my son and my son-in-law are good cooks. read more »

I have recently read the latest novels by John le Carré and Michael Connelly, two of the writers who have been the subject of earlier blogs. One was up to my expectations, the other was not. Both are now published in paperback. read more »