Despite the unseasonal and relentless rain of this summer so far, the soft fruit (means fruit without a stone in the middle e.g. strawberries, raspberries, currants) has been delicious.  Between us, my mother and I managed to buy more raspberries than we could sensibly eat so I made a typical English trifle - raspberries and crumbled meringue in ( Read more... )

Did anyone see the BBC's adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard II last night?  It was the first screening of four of Shakespeare's history plays, newly adapted for television as a celebration of our queen's diamond jubilee.  There are some well-known actors in the cast lists - Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale come to mind but I'm ( Read more... )