Andrew's Advice #2 I find that drinking alone is not nearly as productive retrospectively as I believe it to be at the time.

Success "We should make sure that our ideas of success are our own." Alain de Botton Not that I'm one for soppy, inspirational #quotes or anything, I just quite liked this one...

Tupperware Dilemma I love tupperware. I have a special cupboard set aside for it in my tiny flat, where my collection is meticulously arranged by size and shape (with similarly sized pieces stacked inside one another, with lids removed and piled on top). The problem I have is that I can still never seem to find a container that is EXACTLY the right size to store certain items. Wedges of Edam cheese are a good example. It took me months of searching cookware shops to find a medium-sized, semicircular piece. By which point my cheese had predictably gone off due to lack of appropriate storage. I have since decided that I'm not really a fan of Edam cheese, and prefer something much stronger. So now I have taken up the search for a new food-item to store in my medium-sized, semicircular piece of Tupperware. I could always simply use it to store liquids, I suppose, but since fluids, by nature, adapt to fill the vessel they are in, there is no real advantage offered by the semicircular nature of the container. If anything, this only presents the problem of reduced packing efficiency in my fridge. So this new Tupperware purchase won't be a complete waste, I have decided to just go and buy another wedge of Edam cheese. Mainly because I want to satisfy my curiosity about how much longer the cheese will last inside an appropriately sized piece of Tupperware. At £1.60 for a wedge of Tesco's best, I'd say that's excellent value for money for the weeks of excitement this experiment will bring me.

Jäger Drinks #1 Equal quantities of Jäger and Guinness = a dirty dentist. Tastes a bit like a dentist covered in Black Jacks. Somehow brilliant, though!

Who Needs Banana Skins? "One teacher who slipped on a grape on a stairwell and aggravated a hernia problem that lead to an operation, was awarded £200,000." i, page 4, 06/04/12