I am the opposite - I find cooking and especially cleaning up afterwards really stressful. If I was rich I'd employ a chef to cook for me.

Does it rain much where you are? Are you able to collect rainwater and use a filter plus purifying tablets (and boiling of course) to make it safe to drink?

I agree. It's a competitive aggressive world where people smile and cheat you. Sometimes it feels like those who are honest are mugs.

I had a look at the link to your cabbage kofta recipe - looks like the koftas get soaked in tomato sauce and are then full of flavour. I had to google what besan was, and it turns out that it is gram flour,

Places that get too many tourists get jaded - they can no longer distinguish the good tourists from the bad. You got lucky that you ended up in a town in Cambodia that didn't get tourists, and were able

The Europeans have been a bit sleepy as regards their defence. As you say, this should spur them to improve, and compete militarily and in defence technology.

There is a suggestion that Gazprom is manipulating gas prices to "encourage" Germany to approve the Nordstream 2 pipeline. See

I'm passive-agressive, in that I won't confront them directly. But I have been known to complain to the council about them burning stuff in their garden. They stopped, so I'm guessing they got a letter

I think that this alliance might act like a deterrance and prevent things from heating up. Just like NATO acted like a deterrance to the Soviet Union.

Yes - we're all going to have to cut back usage. Turn off all appliances on standby, use LED lights and so on. But so much of modern life is dependent on electricity and charging our pones and devices

According to this Bloomberg article, some of them are suspicious of it: a poll last week by El Salvador’s Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas found his Bitcoin law is widely unpopular. Two-thirds

I think you are right - separating finances is probably the way to go. That way at least one of us will have money to meet the joint finances when the proverbial hits the fan!

I've spent all Sunday watching documentaries on Amazon Prime.

I've been having an argument with my spouse about this. My idea was to sell a little bitcoin and invest it in dividend yielding shares (for the income). So he agrees, we sold some bitcoin in March, a little

I own some Litecoins, so I hope they shoot up as well.

I used to stake LEO but recently it has become hard to earn LEO through curation.

I've used some sales of some of my crypto to pay down my mortgage.

It looks absolutely idyllic. I've never visited Slovenia (had not really thought of it as a holiday destination) but it looks unspoiled in a way western europe is not.

You need allies in the office, and you need to alert them to the schemes so that they don't work. If you have no allies, you can't really protect yourself.

It's not the office people hate so much as the commute. Back in the late 19th century the ideal being fought for was 8 hours work, 8 hours leisure and 8 hours sleep. Workers lived 5 minutes away from their