Spaghetti shortage

My plans to make pasta for supper have been scuppered. After getting out my pasta machine, fishing out a bowl from the back of the cupboard and putting on my absolutely hideous apron, I started running through the list of ingredients only to discover a complete lack of the right sort of flour. Oops.

Next time I cook, I'm going to make a point of checking I've got the right bits and pieces before I start preparing and not after...

Kershaw on covers

Tonight's edition of Front Row featured Andy Kershaw on scathing form, reviewing A Tribute to Joni Mitchell. Appalled at the effrontery of some of the covers and the pretentiousness of the liner notes, he said that some of the featured who couldn't sing and that some of the associated comments were bollocks.

The whole thing had me on tenterhooks — I kept expecting Andy K to succumb to a fury induced aneurysm live on air. In the end, thanks no doubt to an iron constitution, he managed to make it to end of the interview without dying of indignation. What a relief.