On the menu in the company canteen today was chocolate bread and butter pudding (with chocolate custard). I am a huge fan of bread & butter pudding and an even bigger fan of chocolate, but let me tell you that putting the two together is a big mistake. We were wondering if someone accidentally tipped […]
Entries Tagged as 'Food'
Crawley: global village?
May 12th, 2007 · Comments Off on Crawley: global village? · Life
The day was already a strange one – no football at all and no Dr. Who – so me going to church just made it all the stranger. Yesterday I had a little note tacked onto a meeting notice for the CCAR committee, saying that there was a ‘Multi-cultural celebration’ at Christ the Lord church […]
Tags: Broadfield·BYCC·Food·Religion
Pigeon for dinner
May 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Life
This evening I took the family out for a meal, and we went to Zari’s in Ifield. It was partly to unwind after all the exertions of electioneering and partly to thank the kids for all their help. We had been there before, but this was the first time since their recent refurbishment. The place […]
Surrey Hospital Petition
April 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Surrey Hospital Petition · Politics
Last night we went out in Tilgate delivering UAF leaflets. There were 10 people who turned up and in little more than an hour we covered about half the ward. We could have done more, but I wanted to save some leaflets for Furnace Green.
Tags: Crawley Hospital·Elections·Food·Medicine/Health·Tilgate
Not so greasy spoon
April 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Life, Work
Any regular readers will know that two things I really like are bargains and fried breakfasts, so I was absolutely chuffed to find the two combined on Friday. After I finished work I decided to have a look at the B&B/Cafe on London Road, roughly opposite Manor Royal. It has been there for some time […]
Tags: Food
Broadway Cafe
March 25th, 2007 · Comments Off on Broadway Cafe · Work
On Saturday Jayne and I had a meeting up in London in Victoria Street. It turned out to be something we could have easily missed as it was a briefing for election agents. Neither of us are election agents but and I think that everything we were told was either something we knew or that […]
Satay
February 28th, 2007 · Comments Off on Satay · Work
I had chicken satay in the canteen at work (oops. Sorry. They like to call it a "staff restaurant"). I am pretty sure that satay is not supposed to be bright yellow…
Tags: Food
Partially processed
February 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life
It is probably not a good idea to dwell too much on the methods used in modern food production, but the current bird flu-related events in Suffolk are making some level of exposure unavoidable. Plenty of people have commented on how the film of Bernard Mathews’ facility shows how the place is much more of […]
Tags: Food·Language·Medicine/Health
Fatwick City?
September 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life
Its official! Crawley’s inhabitants are the fattest in Sussex. I think I can vouch for that… Must be something in the water because I have put on 5 or 6 stone since moving here from London, although that could be down to marital contentment and middle-age spread. In the Crawley Observer this story takes up […]
Tags: Crawley·Cycling·Food·Local Papers·Medicine/Health·Sure Start
Crawley Mela
July 30th, 2006 · Comments Off on Crawley Mela · Life, Music
This weekend was the Crawley Mela at the Hawth theatre. I think the crawley Mela is a bit unusual. Traditionally a Mela is an Asian festival, and tends to feature mostly culture from the Indian sub-continent. Our one tends to spread its net a bit wider. The organisers made a point of saying that the […]
