Bigrab’s (Fairly Low Calorie) Curry Recipe

This is for Chicken Garam Masala (as I don’t have a tandoori oven then I can’t do the tikka bit!) and has been achieved through trial and error
You’ll need (serves two -and generously!)
1 tin chopped tomatoes
250g fresh natural yoghurt
1 half tin coconut milk (you can use the light stuff which is lower in calories)
2 onions
400g [...]

Referees – Coloured Judgement?

This is from a fascinating article in the New Scientist
IMAGINE you are an experienced martial arts referee. You are asked to score a number of taekwondo bouts, shown to you on video. In each bout, one combatant is wearing red, the other blue. Would clothing colour make any difference to your impartial, expert judgement? Of [...]

Random?

If you were remotely interested in Derren Brown’s lottery prediction explanation you’d have watched his show tonight. I’ll therefore not go into the details of how he claims he did it.
I’m still wondering though…….Why no audience when he presented the show on Wednesday? (because you can’t have a split screen camera trick with an audience?)
And [...]

How to be Happy

I’ve mentioned Richard Wiseman before. He’s a professor who specialises in the psychology of happiness.
By coincidence the first time I read about him was in the Times when I was enjoying my coffee and dram at Dalwhinnie (see yesterday’s posting).
Professor Wiseman has a ready supply of simple techniques to make you feel happier. His latest [...]

Pick the Perp!

Hours of fun HERE seeing if you can, using your skill and judgement, decide which person was guilty of which crime.

Quick Personality Test

This is Richard Wiseman psychologist, magician, and author of The Luck Factor, Quirkology and 59 Seconds.
Bit of fun. I’m the down to earth practical type apparently.

The Lottery – How Much Would You Have Won?

I don’t do the Lottery.
Respect to the government of the day coming up with a popular voluntary method of taxation but it really isn’t for me.
I’ve saved myself a considerable four figure sum by not taking part although Mrs B does two lines every week. She once won £600 but has of course paid [...]

Apostrophes Excluded

From answers.com
“Where a business name is based on a family name, it may or may not take an apostrophe (compare Sainsbury’s and Harrods), though in recent times there has been an increasing tendency to drop the apostrophe. Names based on a first name are more likely to take an apostrophe (Joe’s Crab Shack). A small [...]

Preposterous Apostrophes

Today, I noticed these:

Apostrophe Catastrophe

I was corrected by my correspondent Claret and Amber for using the term MP’s. I had used the apostrophe as a mark of abreviation which of course is one of its uses (ie to denote a missing letter or letters). However in that case it would have been M’sP, or M’sP’t!
The common usage plural of [...]