One of the many things I love about Newbury, along with giant puppet animals in the Market Square, the delightful river and canal, Victoria Park, the mad Crafty Craft day are the local restaurants. We are so lucky to have a choice of great pubs like The Newbury, fine dining at Henry and Joes (have […]
Currently my finest treat is to be taken to The Harrow at Little Bedwyn. I have never had a bad meal indeed never an unsatisfying course, everything delights the senses. This time I went with Tony and two great friends and they all had the wine pairing. They hadnt had this before and loved it. […]
Please bear with me, this does work out in the end. My lovely middle son Joe. music producer, very intense and incredibly fussy about good food, asked if I could be the first babysitter for my grandaughter, Jennifer. She is 3 months old and has very protective and loving parents (as do my other grandchildren). […]
With a huge sadness that Brebis as was will be no more but hells bells if you need a double decker bus of 5 star food this is the place to go I have to say that my new local is The Bladebone. Always welcoming, clever move even if you are swallowing your vomit as […]
So here we go again, at least we got in, it is hard to make the place my local if I cant get in but it is only a good sign. Summer is going to be amazing, a lot of work has gone into the garden area, especially for the kids with a natural play […]
Ok – a short post about the total satisfaction of the perfect bacon sandwich. First, and I mean this emphatically, get your bacon from Two Cocks Farm/Brewery. This is seriously the best bacon I have eaten and I am seriously worried that I am about to run out (Phil please send me more smoked streaky […]
For those of you that haven’t been following this blog (grrr) you may be unaware of my chick lunch system. This is a way of ensuring that at least once a month we all get together, usually for a roast or three but in summer this morphs into a barbecue (thus my constant pleas for […]
Time for another rant. Have come back from Thailand to the miserable news that we shouldn’t eat too much protein. Whilst part of me suspects that next week it will carbs with their head on the media block this news does back up my reasoning that it is far better to eat really good meat, […]