Volumes from Verulamium – 2.0

My lovely wife has been baking again.   These delicious blueberry muffins come from this book:

Rachel’s Favourite Food at Home

Down to Chichester for a sunny weekend with Sarah.   Mum & Dad’s cute cat visitor came to visit again and seemed to welcome some fresh faces to cuddle him – not to mention fresh laps to sit on.

After that, a trip round the Cathedral:

Dinner that evening at The Earl of March in Lavant.  I recall [...]

To be honest, the earlier episodes of the 2009 series of Masterchef have been of variable quality – and variable interest!  The first few weeks were, sadly, a bit predictable.  Whilst they’ve tried to mix up the formula from earlier years, it’s resulted in a little too much of a production line feel:

six down to [...]

42/365 Phoebe meets herself!  Only a quick snap as I’d been at work for 12 hours and still had more to do that evening.

43/365 A new day dawns. Rooftop sunrise over St Paul’s Cathedral.

44/365 Gantry. In Wandsworth to pick up Sarah’s Valentine’s day cupcakes.

45/365 Cupcakes. A success!  The cupcakes which I got Sarah for Valentine’s [...]

Plucked from the fruit bowl, popped on the dining room table, shot in a minute!
Technical notes:
Nikon D90. Nikkor 18-200mm f3.5-5.6G IF-ED AF-S VR DX @ 170mm. 1/60 @ f/5.6 ISO 800.

OK, so I was short of inspiration for this one!
Technical notes:
Nikon D90, Sigma AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG @110mm 1/100 @ f/4.5 ISO 800.

Just that, really.   I need to try this one again lining the shot up more carefully; there’s a little distortion that needs correcting but I’d rather try and do that with a different lens.
Technical notes:
Nikon D90 Nikkor 18-200mm f3.5-5.6G IF-ED AF-S VR DX @ 65mm. 1/60@ f/14 ISO 200 with built-in flash at –1 EV.

Saturday was time for part 2 of the birthday celebrations.  We met up with some of my pals for an evening at Cosa Nostra.  As ever, the food was great, the atmosphere relaxed (you never seem to be waiting too long for your food, yet you never seem rushed either) and everyone enjoyed themselves. [...]

An equally busy day – office in the morning, Eurostar to Brussels in the afternoon, meeting at dinner in the evening.  Brussels was cold and wet, so little chance to get out with the camera.   But a glass of Eurostar’s champagne caught the light nicely (somewhere betwixt Ebbsfleet and Ashford), and here it is.
Technical notes:
Nikon [...]

Not quite as set as I’d like. But other than that, it’s tasty, tangy and good (in my humble opinion, anyway).   The dark colour is due to using demerara sugar rather than ordinary white sugar.
Technical notes:
Nikon D90. Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF. Built-in flash. 1/60 at f/11 ISO 200