June 26, 2009
Books
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The Knack: How Street-smart Entrepreneurs Learn To Handle Whatever Comes Up, Bo Burlingham, Norm Brodsky
Now this is a fantastic book. From start to finish useful tips from the man who has done it. Occasionally I was thinking how is this relevant to me, I’m not planning on being the boss of a big company with loads of employees, I don’t run a document storage busines… but all those lessons are still relevant, some of them just to life, not just for business people and entrepreneurs but for people.
The writing is great and it’s easy to read, makes sense and easy to digest, I liked the end of chapter notes (similar to the copy of How to Win friends and influence people which I have, I guess they are all like that but I don’t know) .
This is my favourite business book (of course that may change in the future…) perhaps the fact its written by a writer and not an academic makes it work, that and the fact he’s done it (wrong) and learnt from it all.
June 10, 2009
Food Related
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We did a Rumpot a couple of years ago and it was fan-bloomin’ tastic. We drank the juice (it tasted a bit like alchoholic Vimto to me) and put the fruit in or on ice-cream (it was a bit strong on its own).
Basically you get a pot and fill it with Rum, fruit and sugar over the course of the summer when there is plenty of fruit about, then eat it over the winter when there isn’t.
Last time we did it we used the pot out of our slow cooker (which we never used) but we’ve passed that on to someone who wanted to use it! and we saw a proper German Rumpot pot in a local charity shop, so we’re using that.
I started ours off with some plums that were starting to go bad. I cut out the bad bits and put the rest in the pot, covered it with sugar and left it for a little while so the sugar absorbed some of the juice. I then poured in rum to cover the fruit. Job done… as we go along we’ll just add whatever fruit we have left over or if we see something cheap (when it comes into season) then we’ll get some fruit specially.