This week, I've been playing around – or, more accurately, taking huge liberties – with classic British cakes and puddings, and I had to make a big effort not to default to my go-to floral notes.
It might be the biggest geek-magnet around, but Lost is also as risky and radical a TV programme as there's ever been: one that provides no answers week after week, has no qualms about killing off major characters, takes huge liberties with narrative convention, and deals with spiritual and even political questions of our age, including fame, leadership and even the Iraq war.
A honey coated mauling of Johnny Cash's outlaw life that cutesified his story by taking huge liberties.
It can only flower in corrupt environments that lack basic freedom, devalue education, limit liberty, have huge income disparities, degrade women, discourage religious pluralism, mock intellectuals, and promote superstition at the expense of science.
So we took liberties; and then we just started taking liberties in huge gulps".
It's a huge victory for sexual liberties, for consent, for adults.
And after the "Starman" exhibit (showing his life-changing TV debut on Top of the Pops in 1972, wearing Freddie Buretti's quilted jumpsuit and Clockwork Orange wrestling boots – a look Bowie described as "Ultra-violence in Liberty fabrics,") a huge room itemises his other influences.
But in the hands of people who voted to bloat the deficit and unleash a huge state-grab of civil liberties, it is shorn of credibility.
Now is the time to figure out how to create a card that helps identify people but doesn't rob them of a huge swath of their civil liberties in the process.
A civil liberties group, Liberty, said there were "huge dangers" in collecting so much data about every person in the country.
