Massaging an already burgeoning ego

So, there I was minding my own business, waiting for Suzy to come and molest me in her usual manner and up popped an email from luscious Elaine (mmm, mutual linky love). She was fighting her Haloscan comments, trying to persuade them that looking like the rest of her blog, designed by web diva Krystyn, [...]

Introducing Nelly

Ladies and jellyspoons, I give you Miss Nelly!

She’s so shiny.

Pretty good

That was a pretty good week. Professionally I feel like I achieved more than usual; there wasn’t time to wonder whether I was putting my 10 GCSEs and 3 A Levels to good use – a thought which plagues me from time to time, before being temporarily quieted with chocolate liqueur.
I did some important translations, [...]

Sweetcorn

If you have a trundle through the archives of this here blog, you will see that in previous years I’ve gone on and on about my little vegetable patch, proudly displaying its progress and eventual harvests.
I grew veg in my plot this year too, but the harvest was, well, crap. I blame very dry weather, [...]

Now don’t say I never give you anything

Yesterday Helen, Suzy and I descended upon Lauren’s delightful abode in order to drop food and wine onto her carpet, exchange gossip, abuse Dave, take photos of each other and loll about in the sunshine. That done, we headed home again.
Seeing as you couldn’t be there, here’s a recipe and some photos from the afternoon [...]

Hovis crackers make great frisbies

The day before yesterday my brother, Lee, turned very old indeed. So, in order that he not forget (in his old age) just how old he was, we went up to Norfolk to visit him and thus I was able to parade my youth and vitality before him like the sprightly and delightful wench that [...]