Flowers from the garden: August 2008

What could be sweeter than a posy of flowers. Picked from your own garden, on a sunny evening when the air is full of swallows and bees. Not just the flowers but the joy of the moment is carried...

Culinary disaster

We’d had a bag of lamb knocking about for so long in the freezer that I finally decided to cook it. It was a bit of a sacrifice as the bag had been useful. It was the perfect side prop to stop more...

Dyson repair service: Thumbs up

A couple of weeks ago our trusty old Dyson cut out. It felt very hot so we let it rest for a coupe of hours while I searched the internet for a replacement vacuum cleaner. I’m lucky as I visit new...

Belated Happy Birthday

We’d been looking forward to the blog’s birthday, crossing off the days as we sailed into August. This morning I realised that we’d missed it. Yesterday the blog was two years old. So tonight we...

Washing up

Years ago I met someone who had been a kitchen porter on a cruise ship. This meant that he had all the lowliest jobs including washing up at the end of the evening. This was the one duty that he...