This autumn (and I know it is still late summer really, but it is the 1st September and it was misty when I got up and it is just starting to feel autumnal) well, this autumn the apple crops are amazing. Every apple tree seems to be laden with fruit. Friends who drove up to [...]
The Bear was finally home from his travels and we were not at work. It was also not raining or blowing a gale. For everything to come together like that, is actually a very rare occurrence in our lives so we decided to make the most of it and go for a stroll and see [...]
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I’ve been craving big meaty dishes recently. It’s the bad weather of course. That and still feeling sorry for myself after I fell on the ice and banged my head so hard. I still have a bump you know and I just hope I don’t go bald because I have a very odd shaped head [...]
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Yesterday was a work day and I was up before 6 as usual. I got up, showered, dried my hair and got ready for work and was out of the door by 7.25. I didn’t go to work though. Instead, I spent the day here stretched out on the sofa, wrapped in a blanket, with an [...]
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When I was much younger, I took it into my head to have an adventure and set off to Morocco. I travelled around on ordinary buses, with chickens in boxes on the racks and priests blessing both the journey and the travellers. I ate at roadside cafes and in back street restaurants. I slept on rooftops of village [...]
When I want to cheer the Bear up, or give him a special treat, I tend to make him beans. It’s probably his favourite meal. When he’s been travelling, he will phone from some far-flung corner of the world and ask me if I will make him beans on toast when he gets in. This [...]
One of the best things in the world is to be able to spend time with your friends. And when one of those friends is someone you have known since you were eleven years old, well, it is even better. Let’s just say that more than one decade has passed since we met. We could, in [...]
I was looking in the freezer for something to cook while I was at work and found some lamb neck and decided that would be perfect for the slow cooker but the gloom of December is getting to me and I need something with a bit of zing to it… some brightness to cut through [...]
It’s cold. It’s dark. I need something warm and filling. I am planning something that can cook by itself while I am out the following dayand be ready when we return. When I look in the freezer I spot two lovely looking lamb shanks that I bought when I was last in the North and [...]
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