The trouble with having convinced Mac that he does too like wasabi peas...

...is that now, of course, he wants them. When I have them, he thinks they should be his.

Things have come to a pretty pass, say I, when I draw the dish of wasabi peas closer to my keyboard, simply to stop him sticking his damn pretty head in it - and he just stretches out a paw and draws it back, closer to him.

And I, of course, crack up laughing. I am putty in his paws.

I don't think that word means what you think it means

I just picked up a flyer that came through the door, and the first line I saw read "1st Vegetarian Pizzeria". Which is presumably meant to make us think "Newcastle's first vegetarian pizzeria", which for all I know it might have been, except that the next line I read said "Country Style: ham, chicken, mushrooms".

Closer examination shows that the flyer has meaty pizzas on one side and sans-meat pizzas on the other. But I still don't think it can claim to be in the least vegetarian, when they both come from the same kitchen; separating them on the flyer is not sufficient. Besides which, the "vegetarian" side of the flyer adds "Free Chicken Wings with orders over £14.50", which would seem a little self-defeating.

Also, who out there wants to eat cauliflower on a pizza...?