Do you want to know what to drink, the best bottles, cocktail recipes and a bit of history? These people, Diffords Guide formerly known as Sauce Guide, do fantastic thick magazine-type publications that are stylish, informative, comprehensive and witty.

They are fit enough to grace any discerning cofffee table or bookshelf. I tend to only find them at outlets such as Borders that have a more eclectic range of publications.

Nothing about wine in these things though. Just the hard stuff. 

I found out about this web site from a BBC24 web programme.

The site takes your requirements for flights and then searches across a number of sites to give you the best options. The advantage is that you don't have to do all this yourself.

The advantage is that you can usually get a cheaper return flight by coming back through a different provider.

www.skyscanner.net web site 

I thought I was bad wasting time updating all these web sites and so on. I found this blog by Audrey Cooks that must get a load of time and attention plus it has fantastic photographs and recipes.

She says she is from Malaysia and the site is pack full of Far Eastern recipes. I was searching for information on my Pig's Trotters article and came across Audrey's web site. It is mouth watering!

Bill Hicks - Relentless

The show was shown at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Fantastic observational comedy. I think the Canadians got the jist more than an American audience but I am sure he would have got a lot more laughs on the UK circuit.

Heston Blumenthal: In search of Perfection brings his scientific approach to cooking to a new series on BBC2. He is only occasionally seen on TV but this has been increasing to his own series. This is sure to make fantasic viewing.

This is like a lecture on good food. 

This is probably not appropriate for all but it worked out great for me.

Basically I need to be in London for Monday morning but I was going to be near there anyway so I decided to stay overnight in a hotel to save an early train from Bournemouth.

As I was driving, having hotel I could easily get to, park there for the next day whilst I get a tube into London and then easy for driving out again, would be great. I did some searches and found that the Ramada Jarvis hotel in Ealing was ideal.