This year’s Edinburgh festival, and in particular the Edinburgh International Book Festival, has been a very busy time, so it proved rather propitious timing that we were to spend a weekend in Perthshire, in the middle of the month, to celebrate our friend Mary’s birthday.
This month’s theme of “Danger Zone” has a range of different connotations, for me. It means at least all of the following: “Dangerous” food: from fugu preparation to munching on scorpions, some intrepid folks like sampling all manner of dangerous or scary looking items. It’s not really for me, though. [caption id="attachment_3336" ...
Well, holidays are well and truly over... I am back in Edinburgh in the sunshine and showers and immersed back in work. My fortnight in Rome, lecturing and spending time with family was great though. Taking advantage of my lunch break I thought I would share the story of my ...
Retox, it’s an interesting concept and one that’s dangerous in my view; think about it, an indulgent December followed by an abstemious January makes my body go into shock – and then, once your body has just about adjusted to the age of austerity that is a January detox, ...
I've just started training for a 100k walk, which takes place in May 2012. Over the past few moths, I've been pretty regular with my three mile round-trip walk to work, each day, but the prospect of dealing with this mammoth distance, which will involve somewhere in the region of ...
My fellow Lunch Quester and creative inspiration, MJ, is looking after our contribution to this month's theme 'from the tree' by sharing her proposal-inducing pecan pie recipe, so I thought I'd contribute a little soup-related geekery. We're just getting to the time of year where soup starts to become ...
