Shock and amazement – sunshine two days running! Pretty much sun all day today! Any time now someone’ll suggest it’s a Scottish summer (apart from the normal three-days-in-May kind of summer we come to hope for). At any rate, it allowed for a bit of gardening yesterday, aided by my parents. With all the rain …
Category archives: Food
Cremola Foam: the taste of summer
Overwhelmed as I am with receiving comments, I know that what you really wanted to read about was Cremola Foam. I have a Useful Notebook that gets carried around, partly so I can work out which children’s book to buy for which new arrival and that kind of thing, but it’s useful for ideas about …
And now from our reporter in…
Haven’t been able to file a report from abroad before. I’m sure it ought to be very exciting, full of drama and tension. Except I’m in Bonn, the town where it was said, by one of the diplomats in residence at the time, that ‘every day was a little like Sunday’. It’s certainly felt like it …
Travel in the real world
About time I put another post out there, keen to extol blogging as I am yet not doing much of it just now… Blame spring cleaning, early summer cleaning, oh there’s another cold snap, cleaning and general furniture shifting. But, for a change, blame holiday…where we deliberately kept off-line. Actually, this gets easier if you …
Walentynki
That’s Valentine’s Day to you. I just fancied writing it. “Valentinky” has quite a nice ring to it too. Why Walentynki? I don’t really subscribe to the common concept of what Valentine’s Day is about in the UK. As a teenager, you just kind of sulk about it (though there are so many things to …