Meanwhile, in Scotland

While I was standing in the rain at the Oxford Food Festival last weekend I was also missing the annual holiday with the best friends. This year they went to Scotland, a place I would love to go and which, by all accounts, had better weather than Oxford. Thankfully,...

Street Food in Cuba

Certain parts of the Caribbean are renowned for their cuisine. Cuba is renowned from rum, coffee and cigars, and that pretty much explains why they didn’t have time for food. I would have to regretfully inform you that even while almost all of Cuban life is...

Because Leamington Spa Needs a Space Station

Leamington is not actually our home town, but rather a place that has adopted both of us as part of a north/south compromise. But we have been here for 6 years now and the Beast has grown up here, so we couldn’t possibly pull him away from all his friends....

Rain

What with the country currently officially having a drought it seems odd that the subject of rain should be on my mind at all, but thankfully the farmers can rejoice, because at least here in Leamington Spa, it’s raining. No only that, it is raining with the...

Fraternising

Is that not a glorious word? It doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well as some of my other favourite words (deciduous, misanthropy) but it’s evocative and naughty and I like it. There has also been a large quantity of it in the last few days. Some...