July 2010

Saturday Snapshots #99

July 17, 2010

Making a splash – Henley Royal Regatta, July 2010 The Henley Royal Regatta has taken place at Henley-on-Thames every summer since 1839, when the racing took place on a single afternoon.  The Regatta proved so popular with oarsmen that the racing lasted for two days from 1840. In 1886 the Regatta was extended to three days and to four [...]

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The Complete History of Food with Courvoisier and Bompas & Parr

July 15, 2010

It's barely gone 18h30 on a weeknight in Belgravia and I'm being prescribed an elixir to balance my sanguine humour before having to walk across a (shallow!) lake full of eels to drink said elixir in the bowels of a pirate ship.  And no, I was not smoking any of that stuff that the chap [...]

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Bob Bob Ricard

July 14, 2010

Is it just me, or is taking a Tube from Barbican to Oxford Street at lunchtime rather like stepping into some sort of Dr Who TARDIS and emerging in a totally different universe? When I board, I am surrounded by people in dark suits, pencil skirts, Thomas Pink blouses and serious expressions.  When I emerge, it is into a [...]

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Mamma’s coconut tart (klappertert)

July 11, 2010

One of the things in life that has held a fascination for me for as long as I can remember is language. My mom always maintained that this was because she was pregnant with me while she was doing her Honours degree in English, and that I attended most of her lectures with her, but I [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #98

July 10, 2010

 Poppy – June 2009 I love their cheerful scarlet faces.  I love the way the delicate flowerheads droop when a heavy honeybee alights on them looking for pollen.  I love their elegant, swan-necked buds. I love their crinkly crepe paper-textured petals that straighten out as soon as they burst free of the bud.  And I love that [...]

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Smoked salmon, vodka and pea pasta – and a Kinvara salmon hamper

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I have been reading a few articles lately about “the expat experience” in London (as if there is only ONE experience expats can possibly have!).  With all the fantastic vibe that has been generated in South Africa with the tremendously successful FIFA World Cup 2010, it seems to have become fashionable to paint South Africans living [...]

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South Africa in shock World Cup win!

July 6, 2010

(Photo courtesy of The Bibendum Times) Well, the Bibendum World Cup of Wine, that is…  And against Italy, no less! What am I talking about?  Well, about 6 weeks ago wine merchants Bibendum decided it might be fun to do a wine tasting "competition" where countries were pitted against each other on a one-to-one basis and [...]

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