View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CXYwb3tqzhj/ I always thought making mince pies would be hard, but surprisingly easy in the end, even when accommodating the dietary needs of colleagues.
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Round three. After Astra Zeneca, today Pfizer.
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Casa Grigore Florescu, Strada Vânători 4. Built in 1846
View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CW8t71vM9l2/ One of the oldest houses in Bucharest. Or once was.
La multi ani, Romania!
In 1994 I was living in the east of Hungary, not so far from the Romanian border. I didn’t know much about Romania. There was some distant memory of Nadia Comăneci, but the contemporary knowledge was hardly positive: the only European country with a […]
Dances With Penguin
This photo has everything: a penguin, a kilted Scotsman and the pipes. This photo is most famous after going viral when a cheeky person edited the caption of it on Wikipedia to, ‘Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expeditions, plays […]
Food artifact circa 2021
Home-baking time. Ginger biscuit.
Start by looking innocent, take a dangerous walk, enter like nothing happened.
View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CWoL8DoqB1Y/ The neighbour’s cat has recently decided it can and will visit me. This evening I found it outside my front balcony. Which begged the question, how did it get there? There’s no direct connection between that balcony and any neighbour. […]
A secret trial that transformed transgender rights
Somethings just blow you away, like discovering that all our anti-trans rules in the UK came about due to a fear that one day a trans man might inherit the throne! That’s right, just in case Princess Anne woke up one day and declared […]
Mornings
The mist often sits across the park this way in the early mornings, giving it a ghostly presence, and making waking up early seem worthwhile.
‘Every girl’s best friend.’ Cause nothing says ‘I love you,’ as much as sewing on a missing button.
My mum’s place is full of historic items like this. There was a world where a sewing set was a tempting free gift with a woman’s magazine. In this world I used it to sew a button on a jumper. View on Instagram […]
Oat biscuit time
These simple oat biscuits are a nice treat to make, only takes a few minutes preparation and tastes yummy. View on Instagram https://instagr.am/p/CVQ0V-zKbEr/
The Street Corner Goat
On October 11, 2004, I met a goat on my way to the British Council Cameroon. It was standing at the corner, where I turned left, passed the Equatorial Guinea embassy, on my way to end of the street to hail a taxi to […]
All Roads Are Uphill
When cycling in Scotland you should know one thing, no matter what direction you travel, no matter if the road you travel by is in the direct opposite direction from where you came from, all roads will be uphill. Then there are the roads […]
My Make-It-Up-As-I-Go Pate Recipes
Step into the kitchen and see what is lying around in the fridge waiting for you. On this day it’s some beans, cheese, an aubergine. Take a couple of onions and some garlic out and chop them up. Add some oil to the pan […]
