Exploring New Avenues
Welcome to the new home of the soliloquy. This will be the first post published on the new platform only, and therefore will make a concerted effort to be less silly, flippant and quite frankly dithery going forward. Good, enough of that. On a more interesting note,...
Heading South for the Winter
If you have just joined us from the Soliloquy, please make yourselves at home and catering yourselves in good hands. If you have not, you should probably share this post on a social media outlet of your choice, because we may be onto some sort of existential time...
Feedback for the World of Tomorrow
The wonderful thing about opinions is that everyone is entitled to one. It may not be valid, or reasonable, or factually correct, but it is your right and pleasure, as a someone capable of complex thought, to create something that reflects a recent experience. What we...
Release the Hounds
Yesterday I wrote a press release. It's something I have been meaning to do for a while, but then things happened, as usual, and I forgot. Most recently the hedgehog, but it's not his fault, poor little dude was just trying to survive. I learnt about press releases...
Sharing the Hedge
It was Friday evening, and I was heading home. Accompanied by the usual Radio 1 cacophony I was pottering through Leamington, pondering which of the many Jabberwocky jobs I should attempt when I reached home. I usually have 5 or 6 different bits of website fiddling to...
Because Blue
The Beast has surprised us a lot over the past 10 months, in both good and bad ways, but a few weeks ago, on the evening of the second Jabberwocky tasting, we discovered a whole new glorious aspect to his character. It would appear that beneath his chassis sit several...
Catering to Disappointment
Sometimes things just don't turn out the way you expected. It's not about the effort invested or the money thrown at it, it's about absolutely everything else deciding - often at a moment's notice - that whatever you were trying to do is just not going to happen....
Hot Water Doesn’t Grow On Trees
An interesting fact, which makes food festivals up to 5% more entertaining, is that our local environmental health authority requires every outlet selling hot food, regardless of where or how they do so, to have two separate sinks and a supply of hot and cold water....
Memorabilia and Autumnal Associations
The battle is over, but as the dust settles and the world continues to move onwards, we are not done with this. We survived our first event, scarred, happy and a little worse for wear, but the tale does not end there. I'm not even confident that we finished the first...
The Post-Festival Glow
I've had several stabs at writing this post, and so far all of them had ended with me flicking over to you tube. The first post after our first real event is something important and should be treated with a certain level of seriousness, I think. But at this moment,...
Pro Chicken
This post is about both live chickens and chicken to eat. I don’t want to spoil anyone’s lunch, so thought it best to mention in case this could cause upset. This weekend we will be serving only free range eggs and chicken. It’s a complicated decision, based mostly on...
Keeping up Appearances
Today, only 4 days away from the great Leamington Food festival, we have been engaged in cooking and creation. Not creation on the great-circle-of-life scale or creation for which we can take any credit, but it happened here, at Jabberwocky HQ, and that is what makes...