Well, it’s new. This blog has moved here to its permanent residence, after nearly ten years of living under a temporary shelter. Vee hopes you are loving ze purple tinge!! To celebrate and implement this change we took SloWord aside and gave him ( them? ) the fifth degree. Yes,…Continue reading→
Right Hand Man – Chapter 4
The staircase creaked under the weight of the big Detective Sergeant. Fatty let Goon lead the way, making no attempt to force the pace. Three floors up, Fatty cleared his throat and said, “Hang on a minute, chief, I just want to make sure which floor she’s on.” Goon heaved…Continue reading→
A Couple of Choices – Free Sample
As you know, by now, I wrote a book. Which isn’t quite the same thing as “I had okra masala for lunch”. Nothing is! It is, however, quite an achievement of sorts, I’m told. In any case, it’s there on Amazon to be admired, mocked, bought, read and otherwise digested….Continue reading→
A Couple of Choices – The Big Release
#ACoupleofChoices Well, it’s out there now. Go to Amazon and search for “Ajesh Sharma” or “A Couple of Choices”. It’s my book. On Amazon. Buy it, even if it’s only me recommending it. Have I ever let you down? Ok, so you had to wade through my recipes to get…Continue reading→
The Coffee Post – 2
So now we get to The Great Coffee Crisis of 2017. In Part 1, I had introduced you to the lovely ladies who were so instrumental in driving me mental. Yes, these ladies created the crisis, consigned me to the consomme and a fate worse than death – instant coffee….Continue reading→
The Coffee Post – 1
This is a coffee post. It has been semi-commissioned. Semi? Yes. There was a sort of contest on for a “coffee post”. This is my entry. And a very good entry it will be too. I think. No, they said to use “I believe” or “I strongly believe” in that…Continue reading→
Dunkirk Review – Part 2
Well, it’s like dBaseII, there never really was a dBaseI and look how successful it was in destroying the sanctity of the concept of 3rd-normal data. This review, Part 2, will likely destroy the sanctity of the concept of the film review. The reasons are simple. I have no idea…Continue reading→
Dunkirk – Review Part 1
This is a first ever. A review on SloWord. A review of a movie. So lets get started. With some preliminary chatter in this Part 1 of The Great New World of Reviews. On a Friday evening in September, with the eminently unwelcome autumn imminent, I arrived at Streetsville GO…Continue reading→
All-time Fantasy Grammys
So the Grammy’s were on the other day. I did not watch. I find they refuse to nominate me or give me awards. Clearly this is discrimination against the talentless unknowns. As Supreme Peon and Idiotic Twit (SPIT) of the Council for Recognition of Atonal Performers (CRAP), I therefore called…Continue reading→
The Great Festive Okra Recipe
Introduction to Okra A very dear friend, who really should have known better, asked me for an okra recipe, because I’m the greatest bhindi (or okra) lover she knows, she says. She’s having guests over next weekend and rashly decided to make bhindi (aka okra) and recklessly appealed to me…Continue reading→