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Teaboy Snippets…

Our blog is a collection of thoughts and geegaws.

 

Credit Crunch – Gone To Lunch

29 January 2009

Credit crunch?  Not in the Fine City of Norwich, it seems.  Last night at 6pm (wet, cold, January, Wednesday… need I say more?) I got turned away from no less than three big chain restaurants (Pizza Express amongst them) because they were full, with waiting times of 30 to 45 minutes.  My chums and I ended up just squeezing into a well-known pasta chain, also big, also busy.  The food was iffy, though cheap, but the service was tip top.  Perhaps everyone is putting...

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Beans means emissions

28 January 2009

NHS to cut emissions with veggie option – headline in Cost Sector Catering, 27th Jan.    Not if beans are still on the menu, I think!

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Apuro’s new Canova 300 meat slicer designed for safety and hygiene.

23 January 2009

Slicers need to stay sharp, reliable, safe and hygienic throughout their working life. They have the potential to cause very serious problems for the operator if they are not up to standard in any area. Apuro, distributor for some of the biggest equipment brands in the UK hospitality market, has selected the new Canova 300 slicer from Ital to be the latest addition to its food prep range because of  its safety features, robustness and ease of cleaning.

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Typetester – a great font comparison tool

20 January 2009

We often have to create documents ‘on the fly’, to a quick deadline and without the budget to commission expensive top-flight designers.  And one of the simplest – but hardest – decisions is which font to use.  We’ve recently started using Typetester, a free website that allows you to compare the effects of up to three different typefaces/fonts together. Hats off to Marko Dugonjić, the Croatian designer who created this valuable tool.

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Here’s to Mrs Robinson

16 January 2009

I loved Alexander Chancellor’s great piece on the Guardian website about Marian Robinson, who’s moving in with her son-in-law to the White House.  Especially the story about Harry Truman’s mother-in-law (the last one to live in) who once said she knew ‘dozens of men better qualified’ than him to be leader of the free world.  I’m currently in the middle of Season 4 of the West Wing and can’t help feeling they missed a trick not having a presidential mother-in-law…

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