Show some love to your waiter

Scroll a couple of posts back, and you’ll see that I spent the early part of this week on a rather fruitless jaunt to New York. Having decided to enjoy my time there anyway, I was lucky enough to eat at one of the city’s finest fish restaurants. Let’s give them a plug- it’s Esca. [...]

A credit crunch story

I want to tell you a story about my friend Paul. He lives a few doors down from me, and we went for a drink a couple of weeks back. He told me an astonishing story. Back in the early 1990′s, he was a bit strapped for cash. Somewhere along the way, he forgot to [...]