I read about her once, I think on PB, which was quite enough for me. Trouble is, it is the sort of topic you really don't want to google for or that's all your future google searches, erm, … (View Post)

We have it in tomato with olives, capers, carrots and onions, served with rice. Or sometimes as a curry. Cut exactly the same sort of size. (View Post)

Is there a memorial to mark the Exmoor layby? I'd be mildly surprised if Auberon Waugh didn't have one set up. (View Post)

It's a single glacé cherry that one *places* onto trifle. My late mother's sherry trifle for Christmas dinner, as an alternative or complement to clootie dumpling, had plenty of cream, and … (View Post)

Talking about Christmas spirit, two men arrested in relation to the Shotton Tree. I hadn't realised it was/is* a living tree, a permanent feature of the local scene planted a decade ago to honou… (View Post)