What are you all having or had? For starters I've done chanterelle risotto with mascarpone and asiago cheese. Main course is soya lacquered duck breast with butternut hash and fig balsamic sauce. I'm...
Hi. I have worked for my current company now for just over 2 years. Everything has been fine but they have put in a HR manager and i am now on my third disciplinary in as many months. I have been told...
The sprogs have pals visiting. That's fine, but it's the girlfriends who make the most blooming noise (no, not like that, just high pitched laughter, very annoying) Told them all that if they want to...
Ok, so things haven't changed much really since I last spoke about it. The eviction date of March 20th has now been set at May 6th, that gives us a little more breathing space. We have seen a bungalow...
Saturday. Ir's lovely out. Dew on the ground, and everything else. Haven't seen that for a while. Wonderful! Rugby today. Ireland v Italy. I shall be parked in front of the idiot box by 1430. Have a...
After several incidents of raw food being served, esp chicken, cat food served as paté, weird salads and all the rest, I have completely taken over the cooking from the mater. However, I now have a...
Pulled back curtains to see steel shed at bottom of garden with doors open...shouted at oh for leaving them.open...to find some barstewards had taken bolt cutters to padlock...fortunately nothing...
Having spent a pleasant couple of hours in the kitchen I have just realised that to forego my spice cupboard, ginger, garlic and chilli my cooking repertoire would be beyond dull. I would happily...
Is this justified?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iranian-court-rules-man-who-blinded-girl-in-acid-attack-must-have-his-eyes-gouged-out-and-nose-cut-off-9171190.html...
My treat when I was a child every Saturday was to go with my older sister to the library with a shiny 50p piece and choose 2 video tapes from the National geographic section they had. We absolutely...
About 5 mins ago I received a phone call from a female, with a foreign accent telling me that she was from Microsoft,and they had noticed that my computer was running slow.I may not be the brightest...
Thursday. Non of the promised frost this morning. Just as well, the rosemary is in bloom and the mint is growing, I'll soon have some of both fresh for cooking. Wonderful. It's mild out, with a gentle...
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty...