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A brief update; as it is now a full four weeks since I ought to have been setting off for Glasgow before being cruelly thwarted by The Cold, I have decided it is about time I got on with rearranging and have today been juggling dates about for my promised reschedule. I have holidays in [...]

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 [...]

I post today slightly thick of head following a rare night out with friends to discuss and road test the finer points of Goldings, Fuggles and so on – needless to say it was well worth it and the resulting faint cloudiness of slightly-panicky hangover combined with two sausage sandwiches and a bottle of Orangina [...]

Once again, my delightful few days in That London are over and I am posting from my temporary office on the coach, having left the capital basking in beautiful sunshine after a stroll along the Thames this morning to stretch my legs, buy supplies for the journey at Earth prices and have a last look [...]

Like the majority of working adults, I have of late been endeavouring to streamline and simplify my finances, an activity not as easy as it sounds when a dedicated online and phone banker – all is swiftly and smoothly executed until one decides to attempt any manoevere more complex than an ordinary bill payment or [...]

For a change, and because regaling readers with my tales of food, weight and weather woes is boring even me, I have decided this time to try and post a missive which may turn out to serve some practical purpose. Lately, I seem to be receiving a huge amount of enquiries from gentlemen completely new [...]

I write today courtesy of the newly-discovered free East Coast wi-fi (which some may suggest ought to be treated with suspicion following the laptop-mangling/annihalation disaster which concluded my last London visit), on my journey home from the notably snowier than usual city of Edinburgh where I have been elegantly residing since Sunday, and feeling rather [...]