Port Abraham services

At the end of the M4, very seventies but does a good breakfast.

Pizza and Marlborough just don't mix

Not sure what it is about the prosperous Wiltshire town, but Marlborough, where the kids and I have stopped off on our way to Ireland, is proving hard to buy pizza in. Ask (where we are now) has sat us down on the condition we eat up and get out

List of cognitive biases

A list of cognitive biases at Wikipedia.

Jews Synagogue Brighton

The Jews Synagogue (a Mocatta design) in Devonshire Place is looking good, though I’m not sure what they are doing with it.

Olympic logo (some adult content)

I thought the Olympic logo was bad enough, but a user on Metafilter points out: [The] logo looks like Lisa Simpson giving someone a blow-job. Once you see it this way you will never be able to see it as being anything else. Nooooooo!

Three Cornish beers

I picked up three bottles of local beer when I was down in St Ives and I’ve just been sampling them in front of England v. Brazil. The Brazil of the bunch was One and All from the Carn Brea Brewery (near Camborne), which was a really rich and

Porthmeor Beach

St Ives at sunset

St Ives

Via Porthcurno, which hasn’t changed a bit in the 20 years since I was there last, and Cape Cornwall, the thinking man’s Lands End, we made St Ives for dinner. Coast restaurant, on a first floor overlooking the harbour, provided very tasty, filling food for not much money,

In Cornwall again

Even if the weather’s cold, it’s lovely to be in Cornwall again. We began with a good lunch at the Renaissance cafe bar. We chose it for the view over the harbour (it’s in the Wharfside shopping centre in Penzance) but the food – mussels and a lamb