After work yesterday I decided to go out and get a burger instead of cooking. There are two MacDonalds fairly close to our house, one about a mile away and one about half a mile away and I decided to go to the one that is further away, so that I could use the walk […]
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No such thing as a free dinner?
September 19th, 2025 · Comments Off on No such thing as a free dinner? · Life
This evening the doorbell rang, just as I was finishing up making a plate of crackers with cheese as a snack. I went to the door to find a young chap wearing a crash helmet and holding out a huge pizza box, even though I know I did not order anything.
Culinary misadventures
November 3rd, 2024 · Comments Off on Culinary misadventures · Life
This has been a bad weekend for cooking. It almost makes me want to give up. Now that Jayne is back from her cruise and had a few days before needing to go back to work, I thought I would make sure she got a couple of proper meals inside her. Over the last few […]
A good year for the roses
January 2nd, 2023 · Comments Off on A good year for the roses · Life
This year has not seen the usual proliferation of huge tubs of chocolate. Neither of us can really eat much chocolate without suffering from dumping syndrome, so it has been best to not have too much temptation. Over the years there has been a lot of heated debate in the family about which selection tubs […]
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Shameless Plug for a local business
February 13th, 2019 · Comments Off on Shameless Plug for a local business · Life
This afternoon Jayne brought to my attention the website lovebeanbuffet.com. Crawley locals may well be familiar with the Love Bean cafe in the town centre, especially if they are anything to do with the council. It is the nearest food place to the Town Hall and so is almost the staff canteen for the place. […]
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Food, glorious food
January 3rd, 2019 · 1 Comment · Life
Things are very much looking up as far as food is concerned. In the summer I was finding it increasingly harder to eat. More and more things became impossible, until I got to the point where all I could manage was Weetabix and soup, and then I couldn’t manage Weetabix any more and could only […]
Golden arches over London
November 23rd, 2017 · Comments Off on Golden arches over London · Life
I have spent the last couple of days visiting London for some meetings. On Tuesday I was in Stratford, practically in the shadow of West Ham’s stadium and on Wednesday I was at St Katherine’ Dock. So much has changed since I was last in London and compared to when I used to live there […]
The Loving Hut
July 30th, 2017 · Comments Off on The Loving Hut · Life
The Loving Hut sounds like it should be something to do with psychedelia and the swinging 60’s, but it is actually a new-ish eating place in Southgate that has an entirely vegan menu. While I am not vegan myself, or even vegetarian, some of the family are and they have been raving about this place […]
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It isn’t even a real word
July 12th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
In these austere times I’m sure we all find ourselves leaning away from brands a little bit and towards supermarket own label foods. One thing I’m eating at the moment is ASDA ‘Wheat Bisks’ but seeing the box something struck me: the name doesn’t actually mean anything officially. Look up ‘bisk’ inthe dictionary and all […]
Reasons to be cheerful
February 13th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
These are indeed miserable times: redundancies, below-inflation pay rises for yet another year for most of those in work, services deteriorating everywhere, NHS being dismantled, education system being turned into Gove’s own personal brainwashing operation, atrocities in Syria, and everything else. Sometimes it is hard to find anything to be cheerful about, apart from the […]
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