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What’s the Weirdest Thing Inside Your Freezer?

By On Monday, 14 January 2013

Friends aside, things I have missed hugely include using chopsticks, eating chilli and sweating (instead of shivering). Although it’s lovely to have exchanged day for night and cold for hot and to… Read More

Food & Drink

Best Christmas Gadget

By On Friday, 28 December 2012

A hideously cheesy image, but it gets across the point of this beauty, instantly.  The best gadget this Christmas – in our household anyway – takes the form of an amazing little… Read More

Food & Drink

Winter Walks and Drop Scones

By On Tuesday, 11 December 2012

It gets dark early here and is properly can’t-see-your-hand-in-front-of-your-face dark by about 5pm. The best part of the day up in Scotland, where we are for 3 or so weeks, is used… Read More

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Polish Food…All Just Pickled Cucumbers, Dumplings and Goulash?

By On Thursday, 6 December 2012

Polish food – or certainly the food I have been eating here in Krakow – is delicious. Think blinis and salmon roe (accompanied by an obligatory shot of vodka), the thinnest veal schnitzel… Read More

Brit Stuff

The Cornish Countryside

By On Thursday, 29 November 2012

After the longest London-bound fight I think I have ever experienced (14 and a half hours) followed by a five hour car journey, I have woken up to a beautifully crisp, cold… Read More

Food & Drink

Move over Ku De Ta…Potato Head is Where it’s at

By On Monday, 26 November 2012

It sounds terrible. I mean, I hate the name for starters. For someone who tries to avoid carbs as an easy and lazy way to maintain her weight, why would I want… Read More

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The (Sea) Circus is in Town

By On Sunday, 25 November 2012

I stumbled across the gem that is Sea Circus on a previous trip to Bali on its opening night. Their launch party, about two and a half years ago now, took the… Read More