We are in the midst of January and I wonder how you are faring with your new year’s resolutions? One of my resolutions is to eat more veggies, and I have consciously been trying to limit my meat intake. Which is why I found myself heading into Nottingham to try the new vegan menu at Revolución de Cuba one blistering…
It is a brand new year with brand new resolutions and this year I have just the one aspirational goal. I am therefore obliged to embrace wholeheartedly the notion of not being at my desk all the time. It is one of the joys (not) of being a writer, where you spend every gold-dust minute plotting Book Three and increasing…
**READ TIME: 5 MINUTES** At the time of writing this review, it is that awkward time in between Christmas and New Year, where it is difficult to discern exactly what day it is. As myriad questions pepper your mind (Is it Tuesday? Is it really wrong to still be in PJs at 2pm? Will that brie from the Christmas…
With less than 12 days to go till Christmas, you will probably identify with one of two camps; the smug “I completed all my Christmas shopping in the Black Friday sales, ha!”, or “I am in a state of perpetual panic, I cannot find a single thing despite trawling all 100 high street stores and 2000 internet sites”. I have…
With clocks set to go back next weekend (hurrah!), this leaves you with a whole extra hour to indulge in whatever your heart desires. For me, I would very much like to spend those precious 60 minutes trying out new dishes. I tend to seek out cosier eateries when the nights draw in; it is that heady combination of twinkly…
With talk of a Spice Girls reunion on the horizon, I have been listening to the back catalogue of their music. One song sprang to mind as I was leaving my most recent review place; The Horseshoes Long Lane, Derbyshire which is a place that has been on my radar for some time. (More on that Spice Girls’ song later.)…
If heaven existed, I believe it would be a place filled with soft white lights, flickering Jo Malone candles, positive energy, a mammoth library which includes Agatha Christie’s entire collection and the dulcet tones of Morgan Freeman on a tannoy relaying cake recipes intermingled with messages of love. So, Morgan would say something like: “Here comes the recipe for a…
“Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.” – Edward Morykwas How do you celebrate your birthday? I tend to jettison my usual stoicism for the day and feel recklessly indulgent on my birthday. How else to celebrate your birthday than to eat cake at a restaurant you’ve been meaning to visit since time began? (Well, not…
*Review by invite, food and drink complimentary* Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, yet summer’s lease hath all too short a date. I have never started off a review quoting Shakespeare – I guess there is a first time for everything. I…
