Month: March 2010
Emigrating
Doesn’t this sort of hideous day just make you want to get online and buy a one way ticket to Australia? Having clocked myself in…
7 Days in Scotland trapped in the body of a podgy, middle-aged woman.
I know how he feels. Monday Arranged a tennis lesson in a fit of madness. I used to play about 20 years ago and had…
Where do you take a sick horse? Horsepital or the local restaurant?
The talk of the steamie last weekend in Edinburgh was that L’Escargot Bleu in Edinburgh’s Broughton Street are going to start serving horse and no…
Dynamite -the annals – is that how you spell it?
My little chickadee. My pal. The quiet one. A star of stage and screen. from Postman Pat to Dr. Findlay she’s done it all. Archive…
Gird yer loins – pork loins that is – Iron Chef UK is coming to a TV near you.
Described as cross between Mastermind and Gladiators Iron Chef UK will hit our screens in April 2010 with muggins here as one of the judges!…
Alisons Diary Week Ending March 20th -ye old format.
Monday Sat in the middle of the city on my laptop trying to connect to Btfon. This is a new fangled – yes I sound…
Ondine – Seafood and Eat it now.
If you love seafood you will love Ondine. Adjacent to Edinburgh’s Missoni Hotel on George IV Bridge, proprietor and chef Roy Brett opened this little gem in…
Kate Winslet pulls out of premier. Diddums!
So it’s reported Kate Winslet isn’t turning up to her film premiers because she can’t take the press attention during the split of her relationship with…
Hotel Du Vin, Edinburgh
Dinner for 4 Friday night March 19th 2010. Lovely atmosphere, warm, welcoming, buzzing. We very optomistic we were in for something special. As we entered the…