Outraged of OX1
It is becoming all too easy to consider oneself a culinary genius. Of course, any precocious talent that necessarily diverts energy from domestic chores is useful during the vacation, when parents seem keen to reduce their progeny (that's us, folks) to slave status. Stacking the dishwasher at the behest of the mother is not my scene. I suppose I should be grateful that the torment of a rota has, as yet, eluded our household. Nevertheless, I hope you have taken full advantage of the culinary opportunities of the Easter break. ...
Features: Fajitas & Tequila
The very name evokes images of jaunts amid palm trees, beautiful people of a bygone era, sipping cocktails on terraces as the setting sun draws its curtain on another day in paradise. Acapulco; the "pearl of the Pacific" where the sun shines 360 days a year, the "jewel" of Mexico, the playground of millionaires and American presidents, captured on film with Elvis Presley, and even in song by Bob Dylan. And yet, as with all clich$s, and as the darker, more ambiguous nature of Dylan's 1970's song may suggest (in contrast to cheesy heartthrob Elvis cavorting with bikini-clad girls in the film made over a decade before), the real Acapulco is not so simple, and, one suspects, has never been so. The Travelers' Tales Guide to Mexico opens, "Mexico, so prone to stereotyping, is one of the most deceptively complex countries in the world." Acapulco, as I discovered, shares in this complexity as a city rooted in contradictions....
Features: Funky beats
Those of you who have been around for long enough might remember Oxygen, Oxford's short-lived student radio station. Sadly, what sounded like a great idea at the time turned out to be a recipe for financial disaster, and the station barely survived two years on air before undergoing a series of ill-fated take-overs, during which student involvement was rapidly culled....
Features: You go, girl!
I used to sleep or daydream during my school assemblies. On one of the rare occasions that I listened, I heard my headteacher talk about the glass ceiling. She told us that it is an illusion and that us girls- I went to a single-sex school- can do anything a man can do.
Features: Feltz et al
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