Jamie Oliver

Diamonds Smell Of Wee. Discuss

As many of my readers and creditors will happily testify, the mysterious Mr Turtlewind is a most enthusiastic young natural philosopher. Having promised a nice man in a long wig that I would never again seek to determine the tensile strength of grey cats, however, these last three or four months have seen me take a bit of a sabbatical from my scientific trail-blazing.

Imagine my delight, then, when I happened to surf back on to my old turf of review site Ciao to be greeted with the perfect hypothesis for an eager scamp to test – and only the barest minimum of cruelty to animals required. › Continue reading

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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Turtlewind No Comments

Punish Me

Capital punishment, ah, there’s a knotty topic. Some might say it’s an instant recipe for an electrifying debate, guaranteed to inject some life into the dullest dinner parties.

Yes, there are some who say capital punishment is wrong, but we have lived under it for far longer than we realise. Capital punishment has supposedly been abolished in the UK, yet my good buddy Blueshift has been punishing capitals mercilessly as long as I have known him. In the middle of words, at the end of words, anything to break their tyrannical monopoly on sentence starts and proper nouns. NauGHty cApItAls, you deserve a hessian necktie, and I’m more than happy to yank on my sturdy oak lever. › Continue reading

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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 Turtlewind No Comments