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As anyone who dutifully read my previous entry will have suspected, unexpected events have been afoot in the form of a long-awaited and much adored visitor of the drop-everything kind and thus I have been persona non grata for a couple of days and basking happily in the resulting warmth, before returning to my usual [...]

And the best team won, as did I; having successfully created ham croquettes, catalan spinach, chilli and garlic sauteed king prawns and most challenging of all, the opening and arranging on a plate of pre-sliced packets of charcuterie (3) and a jar of huge, green, feta-stuffed olives (veering slightly from the Iberian theme, but I [...]

Well this weekend begins with the fabulous news that the tax man will not be taking all my dough in January, only most of it (and if I manage to be slightly more organised over the coming months, this itself could even be further reduced to some). My delightful accountant, having assimiliated the facts and [...]

Home again and I have once more had a lively week; not for the first time I have been spoiled to within an inch of my life, treated to wonderful food and wine no less than three times in five days (and see above for the opening stage of my particularly gratifying mission to eat [...]

Having now been happily ensconced back at home for three days and with (to the best of my knowledge, and at the time of writing) another nine to go before hurtling off again in the direction of the capital I am feeling smugly, contentedly lazy, and with the sun shining and the cool sea breeze [...]

To Manchester once again, and almost foiled by the ever-fickle nature of that strange and unpredictable beast, the Adultwork ‘service seeker’; three enthusiastic-sounding bookings followed by three cancellations, although at least two of these took the trouble to let me know and the third was efficiently weeded out by my strict ‘confirm before ten’ policy. [...]

I know it looks different – I’ve been a-tinkering with WordPress, widgets and even odd bits of code and this is the decidedly more stylish result. Don’t worry, we’ll all get used to it and in the meantime there’s a lovely picture of the beach on the About Me page! Yay!

Another Saturday, and whilst the peaceful and relaxing time I had envisaged did not go entirely according to plan, I have nevertheless had a pleasantly low-key week and managed to see every World Cup game bar three. Unfortunately last night’s England game was not one of these three, and I extend my sympathies to those [...]

Apologies for another slightly tardy missive, but in my defence I have only just returned from another busy and very enjoyable London trip and considering that an unfortunate mix up on arrival at my usually exemplary accommodation resulted in my spending four days entertaining in the garden in little more than a furnished shoe box [...]

An unexpectedly busy week indeed, with our local gentlemen clearly having missed my presence more than I had anticipated and what was intended to be a restful and relaxing time before my London trip next week has turned out to be nothing of the kind! Thus a languorous Bank Holiday Monday was called for, and [...]