Category Archives: Food
Hard core diet
I’ve eaten a whole head of celery, four large carrots and half a dozen apples in the last two days. Never let it be said that this January diet isn’t hard Granny Smith core. Actually it’s not a diet at … Continue reading
Mainly fair with occasional rain blog – 2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading
Culinary hiccups
I suppose that, in the big scheme of things, nothing’s really a culinary disaster unless your evacuated guests are standing shivering on the lawn while burly firemen tramp through your blackened kitchen and start chucking fire-damaged pans out on to … Continue reading
Watch cook, won’t cook
So Simon Cowell is intending to fling yet another cookery competition into the arena of public consciousness – this time inviting people to compete for the chance to produce something fit for sale in Marks and Spencer. Ex-Countdown maths genius … Continue reading
Bad parenting
An article headed “Five hallmarks of bad parenting that are actually good for kids” caught my eye today. I never considered myself a particularly good parent but hey, maybe the boys had turned out ok because of the dodgy parenting! … Continue reading
Snapshot of Hong Kong
I suppose it was when we’d nipped out for a break from watching the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament and two guys strolled past dressed as bananas, that it struck me that I’m warming to Hong Kong. I was with … Continue reading
Guten Tag
Pseu tagged me! So it was only good manners to answer her questions: Cat or dog? Or what? In a perfect world, dogs, (gundogs ie cocker spaniel, German Shorthaired Pointer) cats, Kunekune pigs, roseate cockatoo… but just the two tabbies, … Continue reading
Arsenic and other homely remedies
Did your mother ever try to medicate you? A few tummy gripes and mine would reach up to the top shelf of the pantry for the dreaded Milk of Magnesia. “Noooo!! Not the devil’s breast milk!! Don’t make me drink … Continue reading
Hot holiday diary 2
Another chunk of roughly-hewn Caribbean diary: “Thin lizard – lime green – on terrace wall this morning. Sun up and Caribbean looking good over there in the distance above the trees and beyond the faux Spanish church. Breakfast was big … Continue reading
The Tin
There can’t be many people who don’t have photograph albums, surely? We have loads; about fifteen plus mum and dad’s six albums. We also have packets and packets of family photographs – all dated – that somehow never did get … Continue reading
Janh1: Mainly fair with occasional rain. 