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And the Winner Is…
The winner of the Little Break to Lille competition courtesy of Eurostar is Sarah for her hairy duck story (we asked the PR company to decide on the winner). Congratulations Sarah and thank you to everyone who shared their amusing and, at time, horrifying stories! We’ll leave you with Sarah’s tale: The worst ever food […]
Read More..>>Home Grown Tomatoes!
A couple of years ago, we tried to grow various sorts of vegetables in our garden but a freak hailstorm killed almost all of them except for a handful of tiny carrots. So, disheartened, last year we didn’t try to grow much in the way of edible plants. This year we weren’t planning to try […]
Read More..>>And the Winner Is…
…Caroline! Congratulations, you win the bottle of Gordon’s gin and the glasses! We ended up deferring to the PR company behind Gordon’s gin in the end as we couldn’t find a decent random generator online. I’ll be in touch. Thank you to everyone who entered, this is the first competition we’ve ever run and we […]
Read More..>>Happy Friday!
To celebrate Fridays with Gordon, we’ve just received a bottle of Gordon’s gin and a set of glasses. It would be rude not to partake so Stephen mixed us a gin and tonic to celebrate the start of the weekend. If you would like to receive the same*, then just leave us a comment telling […]
Read More..>>Fancy a Little Break to Lille?
The lovely people at Eurostar have kindly offered us a pair of tickets to give away so that you can go on your own Little Break to Lille, just like Stephen and I did earlier in the month. All you need to do is leave us a comment (before the end of September) telling us […]
Read More..>>Sweden
We arrived back from a long weekend in Sweden this afternoon. We went over because I was playing cricket and we were staying in a small town so there wasn’t a lot of opportunity to do much gastronomic exploring, but we took a few pictures of anything other than our staple diet of crisps and […]
Read More..>>Sipsmith Distillery in Hammersmith
Hidden behind a rather unassuming but freshly painted blue door on a quiet residential street in Hammersmith is something quite extraordinary – London’s first new copper still distillery for 190 years. This is the brainchild of Fairfax and Sam who, with their master distiller Jared, distil hand-crafted vodka and gin here at their curiously but […]
Read More..>>Beefeater Distillery Tour
I don’t know much about gin, apart from that I like the occasional gin and tonic and I really don’t like Bombay Sapphire, so was really looking forward to visiting the Beefeater distillery and learning a bit more about how gin is made. The distillery isn’t open to the public and is based in a […]
Read More..>>Lentil and Smoked Mackerel Salad
When I arrived home from work this evening, Kerri was busy flaking up the smoked mackerel to put into the salad, which was all that remained to be done before it was ready to eat. We have tried something like this before, but we didn’t put in the wild rice this time, which made it […]
Read More..>>Aneke Spacie – Twisted Favourites
I was invited along to the launch of Aneke Spacie’s new book, ‘Twisted Favourites’ which was produced in association with blurb. blurb’s approach to publishing differs from the traditional route and allows individuals to produce high-quality books themselves, with the help of their technology. Aneke’s book was created in just three weeks! After some Prosecco […]
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