Cheese: The Everyman of the Food World

There is no food in existence that doesn’t go well with at least one kind of cheese. I mean think about it, bread, the most obvious one, goes with every kind as there are so many different kinds of cheese sandwich that can be made. Nuts go well too, many kinds of cheese have nuts in them in order to enhance their flavour. Even chocolate goes well; the kind of cheese in cheese cake goes well with it, hence how you can get chocolate cheese cakes. Through the cheese cake kind of cheese, you can include all of the foods in the ‘sweet’ category of food. I mean, really though, just try and think of something that doesn’t go well with at least one kind of cheese, there’s nothing! Fruit goes well with all of the savoury cheeses, grated cheddar would go nicely with some porridge, eggs and cheese mix together nicely… If any of my tiny circle of readers can think of an exception then leave a comment and tell me.
    I realise this is an entirely pointless entry, but I thought I’d better write something and as cheese has been suggested to me twice as a subject, I decided I’d use it.
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Mysteries of the Wilderness

In my free time I quite like to walk to this huge nearby patch of wilderness, it’s very nice there. There’s a huge hill which goes down to a very big forest and field. As you can imagine, it’s a fairly isolated place. So I think it could be interesting if I write about some strange things that I have seen or noticed there.
    One day I was brought to a party that was just beyond this patch of wilderness and in another. It wasn’t a very nice party; it was just a group people who I didn’t know taking drugs along with two people I did know. So at around 10 p.m. I decided to escape from the party. I walked far away from it and then ended up in the main wilderness that I enjoy. Of course, it being 10 p.m., I got lost in the woods. It was pitch black after all. I wandered blindly about for quite a while, then after at least half an hour I heard somebody, who couldn’t have been that far away, shout out my name. It was a little frightening, because I couldn’t see anything at all. I quickly decided that it must have been one of the people I knew at that ‘party’ and continued to stumble about in the darkness… The people I knew who were at the party both say it wasn’t them.
    Anywho, onto the second strange thing about the wilderness. This was actually during the same night that I was lost in the wilderness, coincidentally. So when I finally got out of the woods and reached the open field (where the moon was bright enough that I could see) I began to walk away in the direction of home. But then, when I turned around to look at the dark woods behind me, there was a huge beam of light shining out from the middle of the trees, as if from some kind of search light… I have no idea what that was, why would there be a light in the wilderness?
    Finally, every time I’m at the top of the huge hill that leads down to the wilderness, I can hear the sound of very loud machinery in the distance, which seems to be coming from the trees. But by the time I get down there, I can hear nothing but birds quietly singing. I can never understand what I’m hearing.
    So that’s it, three crazy mysteries of the wilderness. Now, don’t get any ideas, I don’t think there are UFOs in the woods, or that the woods are haunted, or anything crazy like that. I think there are perfectly logical explanations to all three of those things… Perhaps, for example, the noise of machinery is actually from somewhere else and is carried by the wind so it sounds like it comes from the woods. I don’t have explanations for them really, but I’m sure they exist, nonetheless!
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Unfortunate Implications

So I was on the Folio Society today and I found a book “Children’s Bible Stories”. I figured that it must be the most famous Bible stories written in a way that children can enjoy, in a nice respectable way. Then I saw which section it was in…
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Another Day, Another Post

So Dalfino, who’s responsible for this mess of a blog, suggested that for one of my posts I write about religion. So for this post I’m going to do that. I haven’t got anything in particular planned to say so I suppose I’ll give a little ramble.
    I’m not religious, I’m agnostic, I personally don’t see any reason to choose one religion over another, all of them are flawed in some way or another and none are overly convincing (in my opinion). I wouldn’t say I’m an atheist either, philosophically we really can’t know for certain that the stories of these religions didn’t happen, but it is very, very unlikely. Not that any religious people reading this should be offended, everybody sees and interprets reality differently, after all.
    The main problem seems to be to me that their of two kinds of religious people: type 1 is the person who enjoys life a lot more because of religion and is encouraged to do many good things directly because of it, while type 2 is the kind of person who is arrogant and completely closed minded about their beliefs, and is inspired to use their holy book to justify whatever negative beliefs they have.
    A religion may not be inherently bad, but when there are bad people who believe in it, they’ll use it to justify their actions. So while a bad person who is an atheist will just do bad things, a bad person who is a Christian (I use this example as it’s the religion I am most familiar with) will do bad things and they may say “Well, my holy book says it’s right, so it is right!”  thus people see that as a bad effect of the religion, rather than the person themselves as being bad.
    But then the question of whether religion can make normal people into bad people comes up… Personally, I don’t think it can, but it certainly does not help to change bad people good. If somebody seriously believes that the real God who is wholly moral went about turning people into salt, consuming people with flames and all the other crazy things that are in The Bible (again, I’m using Christianity because I know more about it) then they shouldn’t see anything wrong with dealing with things against this religion in an equally violent way.
    So that’s my fourth post… Hopefully it wasn’t offensive!
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First Real Post

I just realised that these are supposed to be called ‘Posts’ not ‘Entries’, my mistake.
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First Real Entry

So it’s actually very difficult to think of anything to write in a blog. But for my second entry I’m going to put a little spin on Dalfino’s silly suggestion that I do a ‘sex blog’. Now, when I suggested the perfectly innocent name ‘The Deep Box’ to Dalfino he said to me “Oh, that sounds a bit suggestive…” and I just stared at him with the same blank expression that an elephant gets when it sees a Segway scooter for the first time. But then later I was talking to my friend Davey about Dalfino’s crazy suggestion and we started talking about ‘The Deep Box’ and he said “Heh that just sounds like somebody has a ‘bucket’.” now, it took me a second to realise what he meant, but then I remembered the context in which he had used the word in the past… So this is what will be the subject of my second entry, the sexualisation of words. It reminded me of an English lesson I had where I learned the ‘other’ meaning to the number ’69’ and when I learned that the word ‘ejaculation’ was only used in the sexual sense these days. So basically, there’s nothing that can’t be sexual these days, which is a little alarming. I mean, only a hundred years ago it was perfectly acceptable for a man to ejaculate into a bucket, but not anymore. It can lead to embarrassing misunderstandings!
    In case you haven’t noticed, this is another entry that isn’t completely serious.
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So Dalfino Made me Start a Blog

So, I was sitting in the Study Room next to Dalfino and all of a sudden he gets this crazy idea that I should open a blog.

“A blog!?” I remarked.

“A blog,” replied Dalfino with all the seriousness and audacity of a man who had just witnessed his family being murdered.

So then I opened a blog, and this is it. Dalfino talked about his own planned blog “The Deep Box” as I suggested he call it (Dee as in a condensation of ‘Dalfino’ the ‘p’ on the end standing for ‘personal’ and the ‘box’ part referring to his mind, or his ‘box of thoughts’ as many established scientists would call it). Initially Dalfino suggested I make a sex blog. Obviously, this wasn’t something I was going to do. So I decided that my first entry would just be about how I have just opened a blog. This has been a mostly non-serious blog entry, ‘ll probably write proper things in the future. Thank you for reading this (if you’ve just been reading this.)

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