Hairy Bikers - Mums know best!

Every few months or so The Book People visit work with a pile of discounted books for sale.

The last time they came round, just before Christmas - after making a few purchases for Santa to deliver - I bought a slow-cooker recipe book, which got us dusting off our old crock-pot and producing some very tasty dishes. Making a welcome change from our old slow-cooker standard of sausage casserole.

This time I picked up some Oxford Reading Tree read at home books, and a copy of The Hairy Bikers Family Cookbook - "Mums know best!"

I've just spent the last hour leafing through it, and despite having just had a large fish supper, I'm feeling hungry from just looking at the recipes.

"Dave's Mam's Killer Fishcakes" look particularly good - I'll definitely be giving them a try, but I'll be keeping the kids out of the way whilst they're cooking.

The Hairy Bikers story is that they're so-called because they nearly were killers. "Three-year old Dave sat sucking the key to his clockwork monkey, he was distracted by the delicious smell of fishcakes cooking. One gulp and the key lodged in his throat - he had to have an operation to remove it!"

Get on your bad motor scooter and ride...

I'm in work for a Saturday evening release. Tonight my view out of the office window is hundreds of bikes and bikers queueing for the Isle of Man ferry. Must be that TT race time of year again.