Our own handwriting can be a surprisingly effective prompt to memory. When American chef and cookbook author Deborah Madison stumbled upon some old handwritten recipes from the 1970s, she was transported back in time. Jotted down in brown notebooks along with notes and doodles and food stains and lists of suppliers that she used for the restaurant Greens in San Francisco, the recipes were “a record of time spent fitting new thoughts together”, she wrote. “At times it looks careful and deliberate. Other times my hand gets distracted and strays, looks sloppy and tired. But mostly it conveys such a deep sense of discovery that reading through these notebooks, I am reinfected with the obsessive excitement I felt then”. She doesn’t think the same feeling would emerge from a list written on a computer: “There’s much to be said for the mark of the hand”.

From https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jan/21/signature-moves-are-we-losing-the-ability-to-write-by-hand?CMP=share_btn_url
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** Phil.

I'm afraid not, PWN, at least in my case.  But I am delighted to see such a question being asked here, because questions such as yours hark back to the "good old days" of CR0, when this was a truly thriving forum.  Perhaps your question will inspire others — I most certainly hope so.  And perhaps even the long-departed such as CBM, Razor, Domi et al might poke their heads above the parapets once again — they are truly missed.

P.S.  I am planning to attempt a "cull yaw" (= "culled ewe") dhansak in the very near future — call yaw pre-cook complete, only the final dish remains.
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** Phil.

However, after a fall (in public), whilst hurrying to work, I 'hurt' my right arm and a couple of ribs.. Ribs are fine.. arm not so much.. as I am reminded everytime I try to stir anything!

I fractured my spine in two places last year, BAJ (T12 / L4), so I know just how you feel and you have my heart-felt sympathy ...

No hope, Rob, if they're led to believe that chips are a valid accompaniment to curries !

Oh yes, now you mention it, I do remember Vencats.  But the fact that it was "by Sharwoods" is little in the way of recommendation ... !