So if anyone wants to know what I've been up to for the last week, here's the traditional 'what I did on my holidays' post, (in which I largely fail to get through a single paragraph without at least one set of brackets), complete with photos if you can't be arsed to read it all. (Short version, I went to Norfolk with aquiel9 and we looked at lots of ( Read more... )

So my main achievement this evening has been to make a pasta sauce so unutterably vile I was forced to throw it away ( Read more... )

I have just taken delivery of my first Graze box. All the twee wording (think Lush, Innocent, etc) making it feel uncomfortably like a lifestyle choice, rather than a snack option.

So for the last week aquiel9 and I have been off staying in Dorset. Shenanigans ensued...

( In which we stalk River Cottage chefs, eat all the things, and even find the time to climb an old ruin or two. )

So, here and only two weeks after I came home, is the write up on what I did on my holidays when aquiel9 and I went to Shropshire. For the easily bored, there are pictures.

( Better late than never, right? Right? Hello? )

In which aquiel9 and I terrorise the south east in search of a decent pint, go up more spiral staircases than you can shake a stick at, and meet some weirdos in Brighton.

( Seven Seas of Rye. Well, one sea, three piers and a moat, anyway. )

Am posting this primarily for the amusement of bellap74. You see, I'd never had a chicken kiev before. I rather assumed the centre would be a sort of creamy sauce thing. Not the tidal wave of melted garlic butter that just, yes, engulfed my bedspread. That'll teach me to eat at the table like a civilised human being ( Read more... )

Today I have ( Read more... )

A bad time to discover you've got a cut on your finger: squeezing a lemon while making drizzle cake ( Read more... )

Someone's just put a flyer through the door entitled "Chips Away". I was genuinely disappointed to discover upon closer inspection that it was advertising a car bodywork firm, and not a fish n chip delivery service. I need to get a life ( Read more... )