The surprising health benefits of freezing bread that are gut friendly Freezing your bread could be better for your gut health, experts say

Freeze it first www.independent.co.uk/life-style/t...

The genius of Frasier was that both Frasier and Niles were Felix while Marty, Daphne and the rest of the cast were Oscar by comparison

Goldfrapp?

Mondo Duplantis on his way to gold

Mondo Duplantis: 6.30m

📸 Hannah Peters

I've got nothing against him amputating his own legs, the trouble is ...

By the same token, Lard is now blazing a comeback in select Dublin postcodes as it "benefits lipid metabolism"

I suspect that the slice of ham/hard-boiled egg/tomato/beetroot/lettuce combination which so distinguishes us as a people has now been reverse engineered in a Dublin 6 taverna as a "Beetroot-kissed Lettuce Protein Bowl""

Ex-flatmate in New York, who lived here for a while in the 80's still tells me when she thinks of Ireland, she only thinks of Beetroot-stained lettuce leaves and the smell of wet wool

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

A colleague came back from a trip to a Canadian city which he insisted on pronouncing "Mon-ray-al" complete with an uvular "r" sound

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même Ready Brek

For the first time ever, both Men's and Women's Champions recently served bans for failing drugs tests. Isn't that the 36-point headline in coverage of any other Sport outside of the Post-Colonial theme park in SW19?

Shudder to think it has become The Rocky Horror Picture Show for Dublin 6 Arthouse mavens

Because of their frustration with Tinder apparently

Screenshot - In the Mood for Love - BBC Sounds Ellen and Mark celebrate 25 years of director Wong Kar Wai's acclaimed romantic drama.

Listened to this last night www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Brian Boyd - Wikipedia

When we both reviewed books for a UK newspaper, I used to get mistakenly sent his contributor fee -always a lot more than what I was due en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_B...

"I kept thinking of the glorious cry of affirmation which ends Ulysses, and how all he ever said was no" - he was a spectacular cunt by all accounts

Italian friend tells me Svevo has the status of Peig in Italian secondary schools due to the compulsory study of Zeno's Conscience

YouTube video by Ben The Beach Boys [Pet Sounds] -You Still Believe In Me (Stereo Remaster)

youtu.be/lSoM2sJ4N1M?...

The Nightmare of the Bones - 3 Quarks Daily by Thomas O'Dwyer

Maud Gonne called him "Silly Willy" 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Holocaust and Kangaroo on the same Big Star album

An act of judicial mercy that his "Joy toy"/"Anthropomorphic plaything" was not confiscated

Man who had sex with doll on doorstep says 'guilty' when asked to confirm name Peter Hudson was told by the judge that she expects never to see him again

The Surrey Live report could not have been bettered if Joan Didion and Truman Capote had co-wrote it www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/uk-worl...

I still bear a grudge against Pussycat for keeping Slik's Forever and Ever from being Number One

we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you

And what to do with the people who come back from a whole week in Tuscany and loudly proclaim there's no such thing as Spaghetti Bolognese in Italy, it's actually called Ragù Bolognese

Probably orders Spaghettis Bolognese in Pizza Hut

I just heard a Dublin man in one of those preposterous places in Upper Baggot St ask for Two Cappuccini. How far we have evolved

My mum told me she first heard this on a juke box in a cafe. She hung around for hours and played it over and over because she couldn't quite believe a record could sound so extraordinary.