Made squid tonight. Impulse buy at the fish monger. Sauteed with.Chorizo and served with new potatoes and swiss chard. Pinot Gris from alsace to wash it down. Not bad, imo. However, the wife didn't really like it. Any of it. :(

Date night Friday, a place I've been wanting to go for over a year. Still getting great reviews and since it's white truffle season, we decided it was time to finally make reservations. Locanda Locatelli is purported to be one of the best Italian restaurants in the country, and it's been a long time since I've been to a nice one ( Read more... )

As usual, we went away together for our anniversary rather than exchange gifts. Much better to celebrate our marriage making memories with one another rather than scrambling for a trinket as a token of our love.

Starting with a day at the cricket on Friday. Third day of the third test against India, with a couple of momentous achievements. Cook ( Read more... )

Right, so for a while we've been looking at all our friends and how crazy they all are. Maybe not proper crazy -- save one or two -- but you know, one spends money as if she weren't £60k in debt, another is fiendishly self-centered, a few are lushes or sluts or both, etc. So just the little character flaws we all have that make us human. Anyway ( Read more... )

The whole vanity thing has calmed down a bit since I've last mentioned it (a year or so ago?) Thankfully. I'm not getting any younger! I do, however, need some new casual clothes. I do still want to look cool.... for 35. I've asked a well-dress friend of mine to take me shopping this summer to Primark. He seems to be able to work the cheap ( Read more... )

Packed quite a lot in. Friday she went to a popup restaurant / supper club with a couple girlfriends, so I went for poker with the boys (and lost!).

Saturday some friends came down and a very select group of us went to Bistrotheque for drinks, dinner, and a drag show. Love the East End. Great cocktail bar and the food was excellent (smoked ( Read more... )

Bit of a weird one. The group was very large this year, including some newer members who joined from the trip to Austria I organized last year. We had almost a full chalet upstairs, and another group below us with two babies filling half their chalet. One of the new dads is a long-standing member of the group and only got to ski with us for a ( Read more... )

Received this as a group email from a friend:

http://www.leahpiepgras.com/objects/gallery/pearlnecklace/

...to which my wife replied to everyone, "I will content myself with the real stuff." Awesome.

I've been very absent-minded this week. I left my bag with workout trousers on the tube Wednesday morning. At some point yesterday I took off my thumb ring and forgot completely about it, looking for it in a panic this morning when I saw the empty box (found in jacket pocket). Just forgetful in general. Lack of sleep maybe? Possibly not the ( Read more... )

"Blessed is he who has nothing to say and cannot be persuaded to say it." -James Russell Lowell ( Read more... )