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…
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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…
Food 2018 – The Oxford Kitchen, Oxford
Tuesday, 17th July 2018 – Provence Wine and Food Evening, The Oxford Kitchen, Oxford For what I think is their first ever wine and food evening, we found ourselves at the Oxford Kitchen on a school night, having finally managed to find a parking space (always problematic in Oxford) that was at least within sight…
Food 2018 – Murrays, Whittlebury Hall, Whittlebury
Saturday, 14th July 2018 – Murrays, Whittlebury Hall, Whittlebury We hadn’t been to Murrays for a while, but figured it was due the repeat visit we’d been promising ourselves, and so we booked a table, hoping for more atmosphere than last time (we went on the Saturday of the Moto GP meeting and were completely…
Food 2018 – Pairings, York
Sunday, 8th July 2018 – Pairings, York For lunch on Sunday in York we took Richard’s at Rascills recommendation and sought out Pairings on Castlegate. He said we’d like it. He was absolutely right. Some of the seats looked a bit “medieval instruments of torture” but we found some chairs rather than bar stools and…
Travel 2018 – York, Day 3
Sunday, 8th July 2018 – York Sunday morning saw us not in a tearing hurry, but with a vague plan to get a close look at the rest of the city walls, and possibly pop into a museum, before stopping off somewhere for lunch. It was a fairly flexible sort of plan, and we were…
Theatre 2018 – Richard III, Rose Theatre, York
Saturday, 7th July 2018 – Richard III, Rose Theatre, York Word of Europe’s first pop-up Shakespearean theatre, the Rose, had been circulating round last year and when the tickets went on sale, and we realised that one of the plays on offer was Richard III, we knew we had to get tickets. We’ve been to…
Travel/Food 2018 – York, Raskelf, Day 2
Saturday, 7th July 2018 – York, Raskelf Saturday morning was just as warm as Friday so we were quite pleased to have a variety of things indoors or at least undercover to do, starting with a visit to the Jorvik Viking Centre that we’d pre-booked to avoid having to queue. As we were ready a…
Food 2018 – Dyls, Skosh, York
Friday, 6th July 2018 – Dyls, Skosh, York We started the evening by stopping off at Dyls to test their cocktail list. I think it’s fair to say that service is not the fastest, but what you do get for your patience are some excellent concoctions. I went for the ‘Black Bottle’ Berry Lemonade, made…
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