The Time Bubble

If I was a restaurant critic I could dine out every week for the rest of the year in Bicester, as the openings in the new shopping centre are coming thick and fast. Well I'm not a restaurant critic - well not yet anyway, however I feel duty bound to you my readers who have come to expect some food related anecdote in every entry to visit each new eaterie that opens in town. Even if it doesn't involve sausages! Today's venue does in fact offer sausages in a hot dog format, but I am all "sausaged out" after yesterday (see previous entry), so did not sample them today. I was at Deans Diner, an exciting new restaurant that opened yesterday in Bicester's new town centre development. Deans Diner is a small chain (this is only their fifth outlet) of restaurants that promise to help you "Live The American Dream!". Think of those old 50s style American diners of the style Marty McFly visited in Back To The Future and you'll get an idea of what to ex...

So here we are once again expecting major snowfalls across the UK... And here we go again with all the favourite cliches and comments from "Clever Dicks" (see earlier blog). WHY WHY WHY??? Do we have to hear the same tired old predictable comments... We've had all the usual ones already, "It's too cold to snow and all that". After the snow has fallen and there's been traffic problems, I guarantee every pub, shop, office, factory in the land will have someone fond of their own voice coming out with the old "What's the matter with this country, little snow shower and everything grinds to a halt, would never happen in Finland, blah blah blah..." as if no-one has ever ventured this opinion before Look let me put it in capitals for these bores..."SHUT UP - WE'VE HEARD IT All BEFORE"... It needs one of those "Batman" pictures that are starting to appear on facebook to shut them up I think. In fact I have found ...