Volumes from Verulamium – 2.0

The diet bit the dust for the Christmas break.  Variously, I can recommend: Mary Berry’s Christmas Chocolate Log.  Recipe here. Picture of our version above. Nigella’s Roast squash and sweet potato soup with buttermilk blue cheese sauce. No need to peel the squash or the sweet potato; we used low fat yogurt instead of buttermilk. [...]

From me, Sarah and of course, Phoebe – who chose this Christmas message. I’m just ordering Sarah’s last Christmas gift (something she told me yesterday she wanted and they didn’t have in the shops), so a quick message before going quiet for Christmas. The cake is just about to be iced, the mince pies are [...]

Been suffering with thick head, cold and aches for the past two days.  And that, coupled with my lack of voice, has meant that I’ve kept away from the office (firstly, people couldn’t hear me; secondly, if they could, they’d laugh; thirdly (and most importantly) nobody wants to risk catching another bug this close to [...]

So, I failed to post this from way back in, oh, October… Yes, I finally got around to buying the camera I’d promised myself from the bonus I got in January.  And by waiting a little, I got a new but cheaper model than I’d intended… Ah, the tell-tale bag from Grays of Westminster. For [...]

I have finally caught up on Flickr with The Game. The concept: Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. Using only the first page, pick an image. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s Mosaic Maker. The Questions: What is your first name? Richard What [...]

The last Sunday before Advent is often called ‘Stir-up Sunday.’  Traditionally it’s when Christmas pudding was made.  As we’re not having one of those this year, we made our cake instead.   I forgot to post this last week; the cake is now safely tucked away coming out only to be ‘fed’ with brandy on an [...]

To Gloucester in October on a steam train, with thanks for last Christmas to my Mum and Dad.  Our trip on the Sir Lamiel (a ‘King Arthur’ Class 30777, no less, or so the leaflet said) took us from London Waterloo to Gloucester. It was a bit slow from Waterloo round to the main line, [...]

Pictures from mid-October.  Nearly done on the backlog, promise!  Clicky on the piccy as usual…