Life's about experiences. These are mine.
For Christmas some friends of ours gave us some Stilton. However, this was no ordinary cheese, this was Colston Bassett Stilton from Neal’s Yard Dairy. It tastes wonderful but there is simply too much to eat so we have to find other uses for it, in this case making Broccoli and Stilton soup. Lots of …
For the last few years we have met with the same friends on New Year’s Eve. We do the same things as everyone else: we eat, we drink, we laugh and generally have a good time but sometime on New Year’s Eve 2011 someone, I forget who, made a suggestion that has now become a …
According to the Metro paper this morning there will be “219 races in 2014, one less than this year”. Now I like my F1 but I really don’t think I could watch WilliamsF1 run round at the back of the field that many times a year!
I’ve been to the Dr Who Experience once before but since then it has moved to a bigger space and the show has got even bigger. Also I was visiting on 23rd November, the day of the 50th anniversary so I had assumed that it would put on a bit of a show. It was …
Having lived and studied in Portsmouth for four years I have been down to the historic dockyard a number of times and seen the Mary Rose. While it has been undergoing its restoration over the last 30 years it has been housed in what was little more than a plastic hanger. That has now changed …
If you like classic Genesis, by which I mean Gabriel era, then about the only way you are going to be able hear their music played live with a member of the band these days is to go to see Steve Hackett. I’ve seen him play a couple of times before when he played just …
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Now when I go on holiday I do like to take a photo or two but even I was surprised when I downloaded them and found we had taken 1027! Greece is a beautiful place and it is easy to get carried away with the snapping, especially now that everything is digital and there is …
I love to visit new places and foreign climes but the process of achieving that can sometimes be a real pain and nothing brings you back down to earth after a great holiday than a three and a half hour flight delay. We arrived at Corfu airport with plenty of time to spare. Thomson run …
The last full day of our holiday and there were still some areas of the island that we were keen to explore, such as Achillion Palace where the casino scene from the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only was filmed. I was surprised when we got there to find a large number of tourist …
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