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Royal Highland Show, Edinburgh, June 2018
An early morning departure and just over an hour’s flight later and with the show ground just a few minutes walk from Edinburgh Airport Arrivals we were eating a bacon sandwich and drinking a welcome coffee inside the ground just before 9am, in beautiful warm Scottish...
Simpson’s – the best breakfast in London… is no more (gulp!)
Simpson’s in the Strand is one of London’s historic and iconic dining venues which I like very much, or at least, I did. I’ve been going there for years. Most of my career, in fact. I last went there on the day I retired, with the family. Entering a hallway through a...
“Shortened lives”: Jeremy Hunt & breast cancer screening scandal
In early June Jeremy Hunt became the longest-serving Health Secretary in British political history. His Commons statements are often delivered strenuously with fixed-smile authority, gripping the despatch box with both hands whilst rocking forwards and glaring...
Gloucestershire Festival of Polo at the Beaufort Polo Club
Rather than watch the Trooping the Colour on such a beautiful early summer’s day we took the dogs and our very best demeanours to the Gloucestershire Festival of Polo at the Beaufort Polo Club, near Westonbirt. This annual event's web site notes it to be one of the...
Aberfan disaster: aftermath (long read)
The Aberfan Disaster was the single most appalling and shocking tragedy in modern Welsh history The tragic events at Aberfan on the morning of October 21 1966, when 116 children and 28 adults died in a sea of slurry following the collapse of a coal tip above the...
Gosh, my life is so boring….
GoPro videos are some of the most amazing you will find on YouTube. My favourite to date is the latest "GoPro HERO6: This is the Moment in 4K" launch video, astonishing video of astonishing athletes doing astonishing things in one-of-a-kind, astonishing locations....
The Aberfan Disaster: The last day before half term….
Aberfan Disaster Memorial Garden A few weeks ago we were bowling down the A470 through South Wales when we passed a local signpost to Aberfan. It had probably been 40 years since I had last visited the village so we duly turned off and followed the winding road back...
Home air-dried beef rib taste test
Drying the rib over salt I cut two ribs of beef apart and froze both in separate vacuum bags. A couple weeks’ later, a few days before Natalie was due to visit us, I defrosted one and put it on a rack, above a layer of salt (Himalayan pink salt, no less) and put it...
