BY KENNETH ARTHUR MILN Dr Babu, better known as Old Cha Cha by the jute wallahs living at Meghna Compound during the 1940s, was our much-respected company doctor and a most dignified Bengali gentleman. The old man stood pole straight to over six feet. His spare frame usually supported a white cotton suit with the trouser bottoms held in place by bicycle clips: the good … Continue reading Dr Babu and the Catla Fish
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Tom was omnipresent on the River Yealm. I often wondered whether he was real, as sometimes one imagines the dead come back to earth for the day when lookalikes of the deceased pass by in buses and cars – dead ringers, one might call these day-trippers. Over these last years someone or something was expertly catching those brown and sea trout – … Continue reading Tom
Ingredients: 350g Sea bass 225ml Milk 125g Puff Pastry (shop bought ready to roll) 40g Onion (finely diced) 30g Butter 30g Plain Flour (plus an extra dusting of flour for rolling pastry) 1x tsp Chopped Fresh Parsley 0.5x tsp Mustard 10ml Splash of Double Cream 15ml Beaten Egg Pinch of Salt and Pepper Instructions: Place the fish in a shallow baking dish and preheat the … Continue reading Sea Bass Pie
CSM EDITORIAL The Conservative Party is split by Brexit – to the extent that Soubry and Wollaston may jump soon. The Government is an odd mix of Remainers and Brexiteers and so hardly the meritocracy of days of yore. Perhaps that can be excused in the run up to Brexit – which dominates everything political these days – but afterwards the Government should take care … Continue reading Vegetarians Don’t Eat Fish
