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The not at all magical mystery tour

Sean and I both have a failing. It’s the same failing. We both like to take detours off main routes. On the plus sides this means that we’ve always got to know the places where we’ve lived really, really well. However on the minus side it means we can end up, as we did yesterday, [...]

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Possibly the best meal on the island???

I could seriously kick myself (if I didn’t already have a broken toe) for not taking my camera with me when we went out to eat last night. We went to the Ditropo Restaurant, which is in Ditropon, with a friend Rosie who has a house she’s renovating over here and who is going back [...]

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Heat exhaustion

Sometimes it’s just too hot to do anything but unfortunately that isn’t an option when you’re trying to earn a living. So although the past week has had weather which makes you just want to crawl into a fridge to sleep, I have instead been sat in front of this computer sweating buckets. Not a [...]

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Too hot for a curry?………..Never

As previously stated we went out for a curry on Friday night at a friend’s house and I provided the bhajis pictured below but not the chappatis as I didn’t have any strong brown flour.

It was a good job I didn’t provide any chappatis because there was enough food to fill me up anyway and [...]

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Small and shameless

Well, my sister and her kids have gone home after a very enjoyable holiday, leaving the sun behind for the delights of rainy Cheshire. There does seem to be rather a lot of rain about in Britain at the moment. It’s August for God’s sake, didn’t August used to be sun all the time years [...]

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