Saturday Snapshots #245

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  Red tulip – May 2013

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Moti Mahal – matching Indian food and whisky cocktails

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If you live in London, then it’s pretty certain that at some stage you have stumbled out of a pub and down Brick Lane for a late-night curry.  Hell – it’s a London rite of passage and practically part of the Britishness test to decide whether you are worthy of citizenship!  And on these hazy, [...]

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Decadent mint chocolate chip brownie recipe

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  “ Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry and you cry alone”, wrote author Stanley Gordon West. I’m not sure I entirely agree with all of this, but it is true that when you smile, it seems to elicit smiles from other people.  In fact, smiling is one of those activities that we all [...]

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Grootbos Part 1 – the resort

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Alan Paton said: “There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it. The road climbs seven miles into them, to Carisbrooke; and from there, if there is no mist; you look down on one of the fairest [...]

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Saturday Snapshots #244

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  Protea – Grootbos, South Africa March 2013

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Rosita & The Sherry Bar review

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When I was a student, a friend an I loved playing a game where you tried to imagine what your pet would drink if they were human.  In this way, we figured out the the neurotic small dog would drink a white wine spritzer; the black cat with the attitude of a panther would drink [...]

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Roasted cauliflower soup with garam masala for in between days

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In between days. It’s a phrase that seems designed to enable people to overlay any meaning they wish onto it; a phrase that changes meaning for me depending on what is going on in my life.  I first heard it as the title of a wonderful song by The Cure and like a pebble in [...]

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