Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1873, is the story of Phileas Fogg a rich English gentleman and his newly employed French valet Passepartout. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life and is a man if habit…

When you are about to become a parent this will probably be the most difficult task! I found inception quite easy and fun. My wife finds the pregnancy not so much fun but worth the pain and effort it takes for the end result. But naming of the child has to be the most difficult process…

For the last decade I have been travelling to Majorca once or twice a year and in between visiting mainland Spain too, and what has been interesting to see on the island of Majorca is the sudden emergence in the last year or two of Tapas bars…

It’s almost a week into the World Cup now and as usual Germany, with their squad of well organised, disciplined and extremely unegoistic players are proving yet again that super star status means absolutely nothing in today’s European football scene..

Typically each year I invite friends over on or around my birthday and we grill and drink lots. But then for some reason the weather changed and you could more or less guarantee that it would pour down on this particular evening…

Well, it’s friday and tomorrow is party time for my father in law. The weather is getting better and I took today off! I say I took today off, but really I do have several jobs. One earns me money, that is website design, the others, management, chef and catering service…

Easter was a busy time for me, not with work, but having the kids at home for two weeks and trying to keep them entertained! Fortunately the weather wasn’t too bad, it only rained when I fired up the grill…

Have you ever heard of Square Foot Gardening? I hadn’t, but my wife bought me the book by Mel Bartholomew for Easter and I must admit that I wish I had heard of this before. Am I a bad gardener for not having heard of this method of gardening? Well probably, but, I think for me this is the future…

It’s been an interesting Easter break. Not much happening on the work front so took the time out with my family and also managed to get some gardening done. The weather has been really mixed, which, as a fair weather gardener like me means not too much got done…

It is great relief to me that I finally got round to getting my beds ready for my veggies. I feel quite ashamed of myself as a gardener actually, because I still had decaying old brocolli and some chard plants festering in their beds…

I have been living here for 14 years now and have seen many changes in what is on offer food wise in Berlin. When I arrived I really had to drive around to find an Asian store selling basically what I took for granted living in Canada and the UK…