Cooking
Leek and Chicken Flan
(I decided to share this recipe as AI Junior is giving me nightmares) Ingredients: For the cheese pastry: 6 oz white rye flour (spelt can be used) 3 oz butter 2 oz cheddar cheese grated [more…]
Hobbies
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty Three
Monday Hello folks, another day dawns and another week of reporting looms. What a horrible weekend all that wind and rain was awful in the South and snow in the North. I hardly went out, [more…]
Hobbies
Going Postal Saturday Puzzles Number 210
SOD-YOU-KO 210 Word Search 210 First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins one of these. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 209 and [more…]
20th Century
Postcard from Cyprus, 1996
By the early 1990s, computing in the Ministry of Defence was moving from huge, multi-million pound machines housed in air-conditioned rooms out into the offices on minicomputers and personal computers running Windows. It’s hard to [more…]
Biography
Sailing my life away, part 35
PREFACE The draft for this issue of SMLA was completed on Thursday 23 February 2022 and afterwards I explained in an email to the eldest of my granddaughters that to understand the Ukrainian situation one had [more…]
Cooking
Easy Chocolate Brownies
Ingredients 3oz flour (I use buckwheat flour) 8oz butter 5oz dark brown sugar 4oz ground almonds (you can use 1 oz ground almonds and 3oz chopped hazlenuts) 2oz good quality cocoa powder (ie Green and [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Thirty Two
Monday Good morning merry readers. It’s amazing how quickly these Monday mornings come around and I set off on another journey into this whacky world we live in. Bozzie woke me up early clumping around [more…]
19th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part Four
With there being only 11 years between them both my grandfather, Elihu, and his nephew, John Jr, joined up for the Second War. Last time we looked at my grandfather’s service in the RAOC and [more…]
Hobbies
Going Postal Saturday Puzzles Number 209
SOD-YOU-KO 209 Word Search 209 First correct entry out of ‘the hat’ wins one of these. Email entries to me by 6.00 pm Friday, subject ‘Crossword’. Contact here on email Winner of Crossword 208 and [more…]