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Monthly Wine Writing Challenge #3 26 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm
Does word association free the unconscious mind? Try this one: Dog, Cat, Fur, Coat, Enshroud, Night, Eye, Heart, Love, Hate, Dark, Red, Wine… If you came up with the same conclusion this challenge is ...
My holiday hidden gem – Dartmoor 23 Aug 2013 | 12:45 pm
A narrow road winds through cosy Devon villages full of white-washed cottages beside patchwork fields, then it starts to climb, there’s a sweep of a bend and suddenly you are on the top of the world. ...
Wine in the afternoon – how to survive a wine fair 13 Aug 2013 | 11:53 am
I knew I was in trouble as I stepped out onto the white sands flanked by turquoise sea and rolling white waves next to the Burj al Arab. The air was as bracing as it can be on a beach in Dubai on a ...
In Jamie Oliver’s footsteps 5 Aug 2013 | 04:05 am
Do you remember those early Naked Chef days when Jamie Oliver lived in a bachelor pad with a fireman’s pole and a basketball net? He charged round town on his Vespa visiting chums like Gennaro and pop...
A vegetarian’s guide to Mongolia 23 Jul 2013 | 01:27 am
When my 15-year-old daughter was about to leave for a three-week trip (with World Challenge) to Mongolia, I was worried. Not whether she would fall off a horse, get severe blisters, have a drunk enter...
Eat, drink, chat, blog – FBC5 15 Jul 2013 | 03:22 pm
The sun shone on Lavender Hill as I tramped up it towards my third Food Blogger Connect. This year I was ‘Chief of Tweets’ so spent a great deal of it glued to my iphone or computer, so enjoyed the co...
Lamb rice with crispy potato base from The Jewelled Kitchen 14 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Stepping in through the doors of Kinokunya (my favourite book shop in Dubai) a couple of months ago, I was greeted with a huge display of books about Middle Eastern cooking. Whether this is a trend fu...
Hotter than July – Foodies Festival in Bristol 13 Jul 2013 | 12:50 pm
It all started with a tweet from Phil “We’re at the Foodies Festival this weekend in Bristol if you’re in the area.” So three days later and two decades after I worked for Lloyds Bank in Bristol at th...
The many sides of Ramadan and Iftar in Dubai 9 Jul 2013 | 02:10 am
Today marks the start of The Holy Month of Ramadan; it means many conflicting things to me, as a long-term resident in the Middle East and a non-Muslim. Writing this on holiday in the UK, it will have...
Cheese and wine in your suitcase 3 Jul 2013 | 09:43 pm
Unpacking my suitcase after travelling back from the UK involves delving into the middle of all the clothes for a big plastic bag full of knobbly packages. Two week’s worth of English cheeses softens ...
