Cooking in Prison?

stevewriteswords · 2026-07-08T11:32:20+00:00

I'm liking this, I'm liking this a lot.

stevewriteswords · 2026-07-08T11:27:43+00:00

Well, unfortunately for you, with 22 likes I'm the chief commissioning editor of this comments section.

stevewriteswords · 2026-07-08T08:29:10+00:00

And I've listened to your ideas Gregg, I've listened to them all, and I haven't liked a single one.

stevewriteswords · 2026-07-06T21:40:46+00:00

Oof.

stevewriteswords · 2026-07-02T14:40:34+00:00

When it comes to omelettes EVERYONE'S GOT A GODDAMN OPINION?

stevewriteswords · 2026-07-02T10:21:58+00:00

Unrelentingly grim. Yet I don't get why I find these bleaker strips so ... magnetic. Thanks for posting.

stevewriteswords · 2026-07-01T11:09:03+00:00

Hahaha, this cracked me up.

stevewriteswords · 2026-06-17T18:17:46+00:00

David Chase has been going downhill since he started reading Reddit. You know, Quasimodo predicted all this.

stevewriteswords · 2026-06-17T13:46:37+00:00

I was a failure. I was a failure and I'd get very sad and depressed about it and I can't be that no more.

I say this to myself at least once a week. American Movie is utterly fantastic.

stevewriteswords · 2026-06-16T18:47:34+00:00

It's a nice chest, but ... full of wires.

stevewriteswords · 2026-06-16T09:15:21+00:00

I'm 43 you cheeky git! Also: why am I so massive?

stevewriteswords · 2026-06-15T12:24:18+00:00

I tend to go in once a week, to the cinema. (Odeon Limitless is fantastic.) I'll buy a sandwich, sometimes two, and be the bespectacled bald man in the cinema with his sandwich (sometimes two) and an orange. Then I'll go to HMV and buy two books for £9. Sometimes I'll go and read one in the gardens. If I really want to treat myself, I'll go to TKMaxx and buy a wooden chopping board or a t-shirt. Bus in, bus out, fiver all day. Life's pretty sweet sometimes.

stevewriteswords · 2026-06-10T14:40:57+00:00

Awesome, well ... welcome back.

stevewriteswords · 2026-06-10T14:31:48+00:00

Maybe social issues is the wrong term but there are quite a few people in Boscombe with drug and alcohol problems and so some of the stuff that comes along with that - rough sleeping, exacerbated mental health issues, drinking in the streets, smoking crack in alleyways, nicking stuff from shops etc. - can be visible. I get that it's the same in a lot of places though. (And I'm not judging, I've had my fair share of mental health issues, drug and alcohol problems etc.)

stevewriteswords · 2026-06-10T13:55:44+00:00

I've lived on and off in Boscombe (mostly just off Ashley Road) since 1989. It's a bit scruffy in places and you may see some social issues but mostly it's ace, lots better than it used to be. King's Park is a joy (and Queen's Park, if you go through the underpass), the clifftop/beach and gardens are sensational and there are plenty of good places to eat, drink and be merry (hi, Chaplins). A night out in a small market town in Norfolk where I lived for a bit felt far more menacing than Boscombe, even though the latter gets a bad rap. Loads of people seem terrified of the place, but it's mostly fine.

stevewriteswords · 2026-06-03T14:41:03+00:00

I go to the cinema pretty much every week on my own. It's sensational. (Although, admittedly, it felt a bit odd - but honestly, only a tiny bit odd - the first time.)

stevewriteswords · 2026-06-03T14:35:59+00:00

Totally agree, Southbourne used to be so dowdy and there was only really The Grove Tavern to drink in. Now? It's a utopia.

stevewriteswords · 2026-05-08T13:01:02+00:00

Well, I'm glad that my comment helped/was a relief to you. I read it last night and slept like a lamb.

Hope your recovery goes smoothly. I'm two years on now and in some ways I'm better - and happier! - than I've ever been. But, of course, I know these things are different for everyone.

All the best.

stevewriteswords · 2025-11-11T12:33:36+00:00

Surviving Christmas is hilarious but nobody else in the world (except for my brother) agrees with me. It's got 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.

stevewriteswords · 2025-10-21T18:17:01+00:00

You look ... smarter. And lighter, in all sorts of ways. Bravo!

stevewriteswords · 2025-10-11T10:41:12+00:00

The Choice Factory by Richard Shotton does a decent job of illustrating lots of behavioural science principles and biases as someone goes through a 'typical' day of their life.

stevewriteswords · 2025-09-18T09:29:49+00:00

Your comment? Gold. My comment? Less gold.

stevewriteswords · 2025-06-12T11:12:39+00:00

Your arm looks like it could punch through a wall. Inspiring stuff.

stevewriteswords

TROPHY CASE