Curious Questions: How do you make the perfect slice of toast?
Jonathan Self is toast-mad. His entire family is toast-mad. He's spent his life looking for the ultimate way of making the nation's favourite snack. Here's what he suggests you do.
Jonathan Self is toast-mad. His entire family is toast-mad. He's spent his life looking for the ultimate way of making the nation's favourite snack. Here's what he suggests you do.
A first encounter in decades with somebody hitching a ride prompts our columnist to look back on the days when hitch-hiking was entirely normal — and an incomparable way to get from A to Wherever.
A spell of time with a reduced sense of taste and smell proves a boon to Jonathan Self when it clears, giving him a new appreciation of some of life's joys.
Jonathan Self tells the story of a rather friendly rodent who seems happy to ride his luck.
Jonathan Self has nailed it, just as his twins leave for university.
How lovely to have a beautiful watch to order your life, says Jonathan Self; but how much better to have no need of one at all.
Our columnist's rare time to himself causes him to reflect on his encounter with a man who had nothing but himself for company for years on end.
The arrival of warmer weather heralds many joys — but also one very specific pain, as Jonathan Self grumbles.
Jonathan Self muses on birds with bad sense of direction, militant ramblers and the plight of a camel-herding nomad.
It's raining, and Jonathan Self is outside waiting patiently for his dogs to do their business.
Jonathan Self muses on the abandoned, forgotten and mislaid objects which dot his surrounds.
Jonathan Self's chance encounter with a book shifts the way he sees his belongings... but how long will his urge to declutter last?
A wintry dip in the ocean revitalises Jonathan Self.
Jonathan Self on the End of the World, ancient battlegrounds and friendly pigs.
After months spent in Florence, a return to Ireland brings a tear to the eye of our columnist.
Jonathan Self's scuppered plans force him to reflect on how the joy of travel mixes with the delicious ambivalence of wanting to go home.
Jonathan Self's recent move to Italy has brought a fresh challenge. Or rather, a hot and heavy one.
Oh dear — poor Jonathan has had a bit of a time of it. We'll leave him to explain more.
The author finally plucked up the courage to read Montaigne — here's what he made of it.
Giving away his suits was one thing, but Jonathan Self struggled when it came to his classic brogues.