Cooking
Pheasant and Leek Pie with Filo Crust
GP’s 2017 Advent Calendar of Cuisine If you are lucky enough to have access to pheasants this recipe is well worth a try. Makes a great meal and looks good enough for Boxing Day lunch [more…]
Arts
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Cooking
Snert – Dutch Winter Soup
Snert (pronounced like ‘Shnayrrt’ as much as anything) is a hearty pea soup traditionally eaten in Holland during the winter months. It is usually accompanied with a thick slice of dark rye bread topped with [more…]
Arts
Ramblings about robbing the dead
Occasionally, I step in something quite unpleasant. The noxious substance of which I speak is an article about Inheritance Tax written by a certain Will Hutton back in 2007. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/07/comment.inheritancetax It is old, I know, [more…]
Going Postal
Going Postal Author’s Page
Qualification You can submit your article in Word or similar. Please attach any pictures to your email. Once you have submitted at least a couple of articles by email here you can send me an [more…]
Holiday
Postcard from Llywn-on
I chose this because it is one of my favourite places to go for a walk. I am keen walker and try and get out somewhere most weeks Also, I wanted to show some of my [more…]
Arts
With a whimper, not a bang
It seemed to me that this is a particularly auspicious day to start the new site so I roused myself from my afternoon slumber to post this up. Nothing of what you see will likely [more…]
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A Journey to Burnley
“Civilise the mind but make savage the body” the old adage has it. A simple principle, and one that I feel has served me well since commencing reading voraciously with exercising nearly 20 years ago. [more…]
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Some Stabbings Are More Equal Than Others
The latest so-called “hate crime” has once again shown up just how worthless our press are. Despite all evidence to the contrary, they have gone with the narrative that it was a “stabbing”. The victim [more…]