Go Elf yourself!

I know it’s not yet Christmas but we are at the start of the festive season - Bob did one for Amberly, he and I and I found it one of the most hysterical things I’ve seen for a while. I just couldn’t resist, so enjoy!
Dancing elves (click on the link)

Life’s a circus

I’m standing at the stove, stirring a risotto to all its luscious creaminess with one hand and blogging with the other - probably not the best thing to do but c’est la vie, or more appropriately, c’est ma vie. Anyway I’m standing here, stirring and blogging and thinking about trains. I rather like trains. Not […]

Testing or testing?

So who’d have thought that the winter hiatus would be this exciting? At this point it seems like all of the big three are as bad as each other. What happened to healthy, harmless competition? Now we’re just playing schoolboy cheats. Between Ferrari and McLaren (and now Renault) the tit for tat is escalating to […]

Happy Thanksgiving

Some days are just as you would want them. It’s unbelievably fresh outside, I think it’s desperate to snow but not quite managing it. The house is warm and toasty and a bit later on we’ll stick some logs in the fire and get that blazing. The turkey, a la Jamie, is roasting in the […]

Diplomacy

British military style…

For real?

Will it never end?
Renault in the doghouse too?
It’s just getting farcical and really, a little bit silly. Come on boys, just drop it and move on alright?

Happy Halloween

A bit late but…Happy Halloween! Once again impressing even myself with the culinary skills, (wholewheat cookies and pumpkin fairy cakes with orange buttercream icing). Jay spent the day as a ghost at school and then decided he’d had enough of that and wanted to be something else for trick or treating. With my usual last […]

Just blazin’ on a Friday afternoon

Looking out of our office window, Amberly, Bob (who had stopped by for a little Friday afternoon chat) and I watched as black smoke billowed into the sky, creating a stark contrast to the clear, otherwise cloudless blue. Here are some pictures of the fire at the Fort Wayne Children’s zoo…