It's been a fairly busy weekend of travelling as we were in Manchester for Phil and Karl's party. We headed up through rather grotty traffic on Friday which made the celebratory champagne at the end of the journey a relief. I had completed on the house sale on Friday so …

Today I'm trying out the "recycled foam" method for generating the milky foamy head on my coffee. In theory by recycling the milk from the destination cup back into the system the milk gets more warmed through which should affect *something*. However I suspect the biggest change is due to …

I'm not sure if this is related to athena25's post or the fact we had dinner with Izzy and Andy. Yesterday we had a fully veggie evening meal. Fliss informed me it was my turn to come up with a suitably meat free meal for this evening. Despite being a …

The (extended) weekend has been mostly filled with family related stuff. Saturday started with a trip to the Newmarket Races to start the celebrations for Fliss' Mum's birthday. Predictably the first bet I placed on the first race came in at 15/2 netting be 20 something pounds. This of …

I hate selling houses. It really does bring out the most anal nit-picking aspects in people who I'm sure are really nice in person. My house is empty, I'm ready to complete and I keep getting the same question about a burglar alarm I haven't used for over 2 years …