What am I doing, posting on Thanksgiving, when every self respecting blogger in America is taking the day off? Well, I assume if you are reading this today you must be one of my followers from outside these United States. Do you wonder what on earth Thanksgiving is all about? Eating turkey and cranberries just ...
For today’s Sunday teatime, here a few things from my trip to the UK – I can’t believe it’s already more than a week since I got back. First of all, after extensive research, resolutely carried out by my intrepid team (sister, sister-in-law, little brother,and me) I can report that the absolute best Welshcakes come ...
Is there something wrong with the way my mind works? Every time I catch sight of an ad for this perfume: I just see one of these: And I wonder exactly why Givenchy are selling jewel encrusted refrigerators? What do you think ladies? Which one of these would you rather find in your Christmas stocking ...
The web’s a funny place, sometimes. One of my most popular all-time posts is the chicken chasseur one, where I indulged in some completely unfounded speculation about the name of the dish, and never got around to giving the actual recipe at all. If you are still with me, Chicken Chasseur chasseurs, please accept my ...
I promised to write something about the interiors at Cardiff Castle – I’ve been finding it strangely difficult. Perhaps it’s just the sheer mad exuberance of the place that makes it hard to condense into a snappy article. And the fact that I’d already exhausted my camera battery down at the docks so was limited ...
It’s a happy/sad day for me today, as I travel towards home from what I still think of as “home home”. It’s been a bittersweet experience, being in our family home of almost 45 years, now that both my parents have gone. It might not have actual ghosts (tho’ there were some strange nighttime noises) ...
After last week’s posts about the iron worker’s cottages and their employer’s castle, it seems appropriate to take a look at the people right at the top of the food chain in industrial South Wales in the 19th century. That’d be the Marquises of Bute. Cardiff Castle was just one of their many residences: An ...