London 2012 Olympic park wildflower meadows – August 2012
Click here for a full portionTilda Diwali supper club @ The London Foodie – one from the vaults
How did I manage to leave this post about a supper club I attended towards the end of last year languishing in my drafts folder for the better part of ten months? Well, I have a pretty big drafts folder!! Mea culpa. Moving rapidly on. Earlier last year, the lovely Luiz of The […]
Click here for a full portionMirabelle plum & cardamom fool – and my thoughts on the Olympics
And so after all the highs, lows, drama, medals and excitement of the past two weeks, the London 2012 Summer Olympics finally drew to a close on Sunday night with a much debated but (in my opinion) dazzling closing ceremony and a huge party. Monday morning we all felt a little dazed I think, but […]
Click here for a full portionWaterkloof winery, South Africa
Isn’t it funny how nobody who does family research ever traces themselves back to Godfrey, son of Godfrey, mediaeval street-sweeper extraordinaire? Oh no, it’s always “King Henry VIII was my third cousin’s nephew, twice removed!” or “We can trace our family all the way back to Copernicus” or similar. You’d swear that the poor and […]
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Flying the London 2012 flag – Basketball Arena, Olympic Park, Stratford
Click here for a full portionA Taste of Yellow in memory of Barbara: the Monthly Mingle roundup
When I got the message on 30 June that Barbara Harris, wife, mother, cook food blogger and human being extraordinaire had passed away the day before, I was struck with a pang of deep sorrow. Sorrow because death is so very, very final; because I would never get to meet her in person; and […]
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