Saturday, 20th April 2019 – The Muddy Duck, Hethe Following on from a theatre trip to Stratford-upon-Avon to see the sublime Kunene and the King at the Swan Theatre, and unhappy to remain in the town on a sunny holiday weekend when you could barely move for the crowds everywhere, we headed cross country towards…
Food 2019 – Recipes (Plum Cake)
Tuesday, 9th April 2019 – Food/Recipes, London I have a confession to make. I suffer from an irresistible attraction to German cakes, particularly plum cakes. It goes back a long way. As a child in the 1960s we initially spent our holidays in the UK, but aged 6 I left the UK for the first…
Food 2019 – Wine Dinner, Cigalon, London
Tuesday, 26th March 2019 – German Wine Dinner, Cigalon, London I’m rather fond of Cigalon, on London’s Chancery Lane, and in particular I’m partial to both its monthly menu “test sessions”, which are usually on a Monday, and now of their wine dinners having attended a recent one. A reasonable (for London anyway) £50 per…
Food 2019 – The White Hart, Preston Bissett
Saturday, 23rd March 2019 – The White Hart, Preston Bissett This was a bit of an unexpected one. The White Hart had popped up on my social media radar with a friend request, and while I didn’t know exactly who they were (or for that matter precisely where Preston Bissett was, though the postcode suggested…
Food 2019 – Frog by Adam Handling, London
Thursday, 7th March 2019 – Frog by Adam Handling, London Back in London again for another theatrical event, and having kept costs down on our previous visit, post seeing Sir Ian McKellen, talking entertainingly and at surprising length about his career now he’s turned 80, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, we opted to go…
Food 2019 – Parsons, London
Saturday, 2nd March 2019 – Parsons, London In London for a theatre trip, it’s always a bit of a challenge deciding where to eat and when. This time, post seeing Gillian Anderson in the rather splendid “All About Eve” at the Noel Coward Theatre in the afternoon, and having fortified ourselves with cocktails at Seven…
Food 2019 – Gorilla, Copenhagen
Wednesday, 25th February 2019 – Gorilla, Copenhagen There are undoubtedly worse things that being stuck in a foreign city when you’re not well. However, on the day in question I couldn’t imagine what those things might be. Feeling completely rotten, and having coughed, sneezed and snuffled my way through a full day of meetings, I…
Food 2019 – Sanchez, Copenhagen
Monday, February 24th 2019 – Sanchez, Copenhagen Sanchez has been open since the end of 2017 and there’s been so much buzz around the place that I realised I needed to get there. Arriving in Copenhagen on my own with no colleagues in tow, I had the choice of going wherever I chose for dinner…
Food 2019 – French Affaire, Stony Stratford
Friday, 8th February 2019 – French Affaire, Stony Stratford I’d got wind of a new place opening up in Stony Stratford, in the space that used to be Cameron’s Kitchen. With Dan and Ailie having moved on, it stood empty for a while but is now a currently predominantly lunchtime place called French Affaire. However,…
Running 2019 – The London Winter Run, London
Sunday, 3rd February 2019 – The Cancer Research UK London Winter Run, London I’ve been a runner since 2006, so 13 years (though two of those were spent trying to find ways of mitigating an ankle issue caused by defective biomechanics, attempting to stave off surgery, being told I’d never run again, having the surgery…
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