The great man died yesterday, aged 79. All over the world people are digging out their old Bo Diddley records, downloading his songs and searching him out on YouTube at this very moment. The planet moves to the Diddley beat. Rock on, Bo Diddley....

We just spent a fantastic few days in the south of Armenia, exploring old churches and ancient stone circles. On the way back we bought a bucket of field blewits from mushroom and herb gatherers on a grassy alpine plateau....

Here's the html code for my home page. The URL has to be substituted for that of each page to be redirected. It took me a long time, but it worked.

That's it. I now have my very own kennel after a week of writing HTML script with redirect tags for each page of my site. Which means the tom yam tofu recipe still isny up...but the move to a new domain was more important...I had to get it right.

Or Tom Tom Mushroom....Yum Yum baby corn - whatever. Yesterday I made Vegetarian Tom Yam soup based on a quick 'cafe' recipe I got from a guy in Thailand and you know what It was really good - tasted just like his! Yum Yum fast food...

And I think it's the biz, so here's a link. Reminds me I also wanted to mention Audacity multi-track recorder at some point, so I'll do that today as well. And the vegetarian connection? Well, here's one veggie that listens to NIN and uses Audacity..

Spring has sprung and everything is green...including the Macbeanoblog. And on that theme, here's a link to recipe for a fat-free, low-calorie spring green chilled soup - go green and get lean with Ashy Macbean...

Sveta has lost 5 kilos and I've lost.....none....

...some arsehole reverses into you while you're trying to cross the road on a green light.

Check out what's on offer in Hong Kong supermarkets....

I impulse-bought a sack of these small, pink berries in a health-food shop in Exeter. They're meant to be full of good things and that's just what I need at the moment. I'm back on a health-kick-detox-getfit trip, after a month of doing the opposite.

I'm going to be checking my spinach leaves carefully before stabbing a fork into them...

So far this is the best free image editing software I've found on the web. It's the reason why I've been uploading so many new photogalleries lately. I found the site a few weeks ago and after testing out the software I want to share my discovery....

If Fassbender and Rausch had another partner, they would be 'the three chocolatiers'. But they don't..and that's probably not how the word is pronounced anyway. All the same...their chocolate is magic!

We've had Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, Italian and Lebanese veggie food...but the best so far has been Vegetarian sushi and pad thai in Papa No's restaurant...