Earlier this week, I went to visit my friend Clutch at his home in the seaside village of Burntisland in Fife, Scotland. We have a whisky blog together (called, unsurprisingly, Dubber and Clutch), we’re co-writing a book about whisky (along with a bunch of other authors), and we’d arranged to visit a couple of distilleries [...]
Real Chinese Food Jake and I went to see Best Worst Movie at the Flatpack film festival this evening (which was really great, by the way). Beforehand, we thought we’d get a bite to eat – and since we were in the Chinese Quarter, we thought we’d have Chinese food. We tried a couple of [...]
Anthony Herron from Boy Wonder Records and Brian Travers from UB40 I had an interesting lunch that stretched to a whole afternoon at Cafe Soya (my favourite place to get Won Ton Noodle Soup). I was there with Jez Collins, who I work with at the university; my neighbour and local record label expert / [...]
Categories: 365,Birmingham,Food,Musician
Picnic at Bromford Junction Yes, another bike ride photo. I’ve been doing a lot of cycling on my holiday, and today I decided to make a bit of an afternoon of it and take a picnic. Our friend Jo brought a bottle of wine over for dinner last night, and there was enough left for [...]
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Photo by PetersPic924 As you may have read, my New Year’s resolution is to do twelve different things for thirty days each throughout 2010. And I thought that after the excess of Christmas and New Year, probably the best way to start is with 30 days of detox – starting January 2nd. I’m not going [...]
Categories: Food
Our last day in Prague. Bobbie and Kelly went shopping, and so Jake and I went exploring. We saw some cool buildings – even wandered into a couple of them. But one of the highlights of the day was Jake finding something slightly more challenging than the Rubik’s cube. He’s been doing the cube for [...]
Tagged: Food, Prague, puzzle, Restaurant, rubik, Vegetarian
