Tuesday 8th August 2018 – Old Spitalfields Market, London It’s all very well working somewhere for a couple of years but eventually you get a bit bored with the same old streets every day. With that in mind, I’ve resolved to do some “lunchtime tourism” to see what I can see in the space of…
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Food 2018 – The Red House, Marsh Benham
Sunday, August 5th 2018 – The Red House, Marsh Benham Back in the late 1980s, towards the end of my first decade as a wage slave, I worked for a company that moved its offices from Bromley, in south London, to Aldermaston, in the middle of nowhere, and thus ended up buying a house in…
Travel 2018 – Stonehenge, Amesbury
Sunday, August 5th 2018 – Stonehenge, Amesbury, Wiltshire For many, many years we’ve driven past Stonehenge on the A303, usually getting to somewhere to stay for Thruxton, but we’ve never stopped off. Even as a child on motoring holidays to Cornwall, we’d never stopped. So as we were less than an hour away in our…
Food 2018 – The Harrow at Little Bedwyn, Little Bedwyn
Saturday, August 4th 2018 – The Harrow at Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire Little Bedwyn is a very tiny village (also spelled Little Bedwin, and also known as Bedwyn Parva), with a population of 250 at the last count. It also has an Iron Age hill fort (Chisbury Camp), a decorated Gothic former chapel (St Martin’s) and…
Travel 2018 – Basildon Park, Berkshire
Saturday, August 4th 2018 – Basildon Park, Berkshire Headed for an evening at a particularly excellent restaurant in Berkshire (or possibly Wiltshire – I haven’t double checked yet) we were casting around for something to do in the afternoon, to make it into more of a “holiday” than just a trip out for dinner. After…
Food 2018 – Bar Encore, The Rice Bowl, Towcester
Saturday, 28th July 2018 – Bar Encore, The Rice Bowl, Towcester Well, we made a second stab at Bar Encore in town, hoping to test out their food. The menu claims they do tapas, but the reality that evening turned out to be that there was some technical issue in the kitchen which meant there…
Travel 2018 – The Depot, Weedon Bec
Saturday, 28th July 2018 – The Depot, Weedon Bec I got wind of this place when people I know started mentioning, in passing, book events that were taking place there. I drive past Weedon Bec on a regular basis, and even used to go to the dentist there, so how I’d missed the Depot is…
Food 2018 – Potterspury House Restaurant, Potterspury
Friday, 27th July – Potterspury House Restaurant, Potterspury This was an odd one. Potterspury House Restaurant is tucked away in an old manor house type building that’s been converted into a day spa, and that also appears to do weddings, and it seems to be being run currently by the owners, with no input from…
Food 2018 – Maaya, Brasserie Blanc, Milton Keynes
Wednesday, 25th July 2018 – Brasserie Blanc, Milton Keynes This was an odd one… We tried to eat out twice during the week with the intention of testing new places and ended up failing completely on both occasions and having to fall back on old favourites instead. Sometimes it just all goes awry. On the…
Travel 2018 – Cart Marking Ceremony, The Worshipful Company of Carmen, London
Wednesday, 18th July – Cart Marking Ceremony, City of London, London I was quietly minding my own business en route to the office, and I rounded the corner into Gresham Street to find it and the surrounding streets slowly filling up with horses, carts and vintage lorries and buses of many kinds. The first warning…
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