Another month (almost) without a post! What an exciting life I lead …

Christmas was quiet, just as we like it. Although we don’t go overboard at all, we were left with a mountain of food, which we are slowly working through (details on Reactive Cooking). We went for a walk at Easington on Boxing Day, somewhere - astonishingly - we hadn’t been ( Read more... )

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Three nights including dinner at Rosleague Manor, near Letterfrack, Galway. We've stayed here before, and it's wonderful, as is the food.

Three nights (including two nights' dinner) at the Park House Hotel in Galway City. We haven't stayed in Galway for about ten years, so it'll be interested to see how it's changed, and it's a great base for ( Read more... )

Tickets bought - check.
Flights booked - check.
Car Hire booked - check.

Paul Buchanan in Galway, July 16 - HERE WE COME!

we decided to say "fukkit" and blow some of the money from our night programming stint on a weekend away. So we've booked three days at Eype's Mouth Country Hotel on the Jurassic Park Coast in Dorset ( Read more... )

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this morning we cracked - or, more accurately, perlmonger did. So we have booked tickets to see Paul Buchanan again, this time in Edinburgh on 25th November. I haven't been in the Usher Hall in *years*. I haven't been in Edinburgh since 1986, come to that, despite having lived there for several years, up until the age of 21 ( Read more... )