An English Gentleman
Sir Bobby Robson was my favourite football (soccer) manager. For me he was the most talented of them all winning trophies with Ipswich Town, Barcelona, Porto, PSV Eindhoven as well as an incredible manager of England and Newcastle United.
But this isn’t about football or his achievements, it is about a man who won […]
It’s good for ducks!
So much for the Summer of barbeques, heatwaves and water bans as predicted by the Met Office. Now they are refusing to predict the weather beyond a two week period. What a cop out! I can do better than that…write the next four weeks off and book your holiday in September instead.
We […]
That’ll teach me….
You are more used to me bemoaning the lack of response when advertising for vaccant positions in the company I work for. Well not today! My God, I placed an advert in an overseas recruitment website and my email inbox has gone beserk! It’s no joke, and they’re all in French!
Anyway, it’s nice […]
A lovely pudding with a twist…
I am a huge fan of herbs in cooking and I see no reason why they cannot be incorporated into desserts and baking more than they are. There are the obvious ones which we know about such as mint, lavender and angelica etc but what about rosemary? Here’s a great […]
Watching Peregrine Falcons in the wild….
I have been guilty recently of becoming too fixed with getting ‘the shot’ when I have been out walking and concentrating less on what is more important in my life at this moment in time and that is making the most of my limited time off. Too often my reason […]
Making brown rice a healthy and interesting alternative to white rice and pasta
Brown rice tends to be the poorer relation of white rice, it takes longer to cook and for most doesn’t taste as good. I much prefer brown rice, I know it is better for me to eat and is certainly worth the wait […]
How to find my blog on the internet search engines…..
Great title hey? Well that’s what somebody out there in the wide wide world of web typed into their search engine and found me! I’ve written about this before and I return to it when I see a few good phrases and/or words.
Some of the words […]
A welcome return to an old haunt…
I’m going to be honest here, I just wrote quite a nice long piece about this place but my computer decided to play up and I lost all of the text. It’s late, I’m tired and I’ve still got work to finish before the morning so I’ll leave the […]
When the world became a smaller space thanks to soy sauce…
I had a flashback in a supermarket yesterday, thankfully I wasn’t arrested but this particular one was so vivid it was as if I had travelled back in time to circa 1982/83 when my brother returned home one evening extolling the virtues of Jimmy Wong’s […]
A review of the new book by renowned wildlife photographer Andy Rouse….
I must declare this to be a somewhat biased review as I am a huge fan of Andy Rouse’s work. A little over a year ago I reviewed his Concepts of Nature book, a real tour de force on wildlife photography. This new […]