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My lovely friend Linda is over from Spain for a few days and staying with me. When friends move far away (she and George used to live in Twickenham), the disappointment of seeing them less frequently is offset by a more intense period of ‘togetherness’ when visits take place, either to their home or mine. […]
Read MoreAfter months of eating healthy salads at lunchtime (most particularly my Sensational Alkalising Salad), I now want a nice bowl of warming soup when I take a break from work in the week. It’s not very cold for the time of year but it’s definitely colder. And it feels like winter anyway with too […]
Read MoreI’ve been on a bit of a roll with mulled wine this week while coming up with the Single Gourmet Traveller’s Mulled Wine Recipe for Waitrose Cellar. Amongst the six bottles of wine Waitrose sent me, I found a bottle of their own, ready-made Mulled Wine that comes in one neat bottle and needs no […]
Read MoreWhen Waitrose Cellar got in touch with me last month telling me about their promotion of ‘Mulled Wines Around the World’ and asking if I’d like to write something for it on my blog, my mind immediately turned to winter snow scenes and apres ski (apres ski because you would never catch me on a ski […]
Read MoreWhitton is only a couple of miles away from my home, but it’s been off my radar most of the time I’ve lived in the Twickenham area – for well over twenty years! However, when Jonathan and Lyndsey moved to a house there a few months ago, I started to get to know it better. […]
Read MoreIt’s been a long time – 3 years! – since I wrote up my own Top Ten Cookery Books and since then I’ve often thought I should add more from time to time. I’m a cookbook addict and am always adding to my already huge collection because fashions in cooking change and while I hold […]
Read MoreLeeks are in season – they’re available and best eaten November until April – but the ones I’ve seen in the supermarket have been so ridiculously expensive, I haven’t been able to bring myself to buy any. What on earth is this all about? Once £4.99 for 3 large leeks. But then I saw a nice […]
Read MoreI hadn’t planned to write about The Pavilion Cafe in Victoria Park, east London, but by the time I’d tasted some of their food and drunk a great coffee, I thought it was an opportunity not to be missed for the blog. My friend Elsa has just moved and her new home overlooks the park. […]
Read MoreIt’s well known amongst my family and friends that my favourite coffee house/cafe is Butter Beans (formerly Taylor St Baristas) in Richmond. Why else would I travel two and a half miles at least once a day, and often twice, for a cup of coffee unless it wasn’t just good, but wonderful! Butter Beans has […]
Read MoreI always talk about being a Londoner and it is true that I’ve always lived in London, but for my most of my childhood I lived right on the borders, in the Greater London Borough of Bexley with a postal address of Kent. Thus Kent is also ‘home’ and it’s where my brother and his family […]
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