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“Shopping ain’t my bag” A Review of L’orchidea
“Shopping ain’t my bag” A Review of L’orchidea by blackheathcoffeeshops A Review of L'Orchidee in Westfield Shopping ain’t my bag, so you will not be shocked to learn that I have only just visited...
What Flavours are Left to get Excited About? A Review of Sticks and Sushi
cold fish and salad… or delicious and refreshing…?
Manzano's in Greenwich
The name Manzano’s… it sounds appetising, and (probably only because it sounds like Manana) relaxing. You experience the world differently if your Spanish is next-to-non-existent. Googling the word...
What I hoped to find in Masala Mart I did find in Masala Mart
Screwfix, Plumbase, Masala Mart. They sound like they are all from one conglomerate, don’t they? They certainly all sit in the trading estate in Ramac Lane Charlton. But there is one name in that...
A steamed bun is hard to come by
Great Chinese street food from Greenwich Market keeps us happy on a sunny day
Life is best lived by ending a meal with your favorite bite.
Le Bouchon Both of my favorite meals in France were eaten in rustic restaurants, with people drinking wine from elegant carafes, and Le Bouchon absolutely aims to channel this image in it’s bijoux...
The Top is the Best Bit of Any Pie
The British Oak’s social media image has been raising an inviting image for some time, but errr, well, I’ve not been too sure how much of a lack of multiculturism to read into its name. In fact it...
Who told me that the food was bad in Iceland?
Who told me that the food was bad in Iceland (the country)? I mean, I am pretty sure that everyone told me that the food was bad in Iceland. They were misinformed. I journeyed out to Iceland...
Is there anything as rustically beautiful as an Oyster?
A review of the Oyster and Steak Bar in Waitrose Canary Wharf. I know you don't come here for reviews of supermarkets, but even if you find them very boring you will be in them very often. It's not...
My Paintings
Canary Wharf Clouds
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A Few More Of My Blog Posts
“An unusually good coffee machine but yards away..” a review of camping in the postage stamp garden SE3
It’s been kind of warm lately, no? Kind of wake up in the middle of the night wondering how you will make it through August warm. And as flooding sunshine drowned out the bedroom I thought, this would have been better if I’d been camping. Now my garden is what is...
The Greenwich COVID testing site. An event to leave the house for!
After two days of convincing myself that my temperature was due to heat stroke, the sore throat to hayfever, the cough to asthma and the seeming inability to stand up and make a cup of tea was due to an early morning bike ride (or even burn out) it eventually occurred...
Emanating Kombucha cordial rays – more tales from Lockdown SE3
All this means that while the world races towards a COVID vaccine/cure/test, I will be performing my own internal experiment. When I have ‘worked down’ this supply of off-beat health foods, will I be superwoman an anti-Covid glowing lamp emanating my kombucha rays
“ I don’t often buy carrot cake…” a review of Severn Droog Castle Cakes, SE18
I don’t often buy carrot cake. I usually look at it on the counter and frown, and say “I’ll sample that sometime”.
Yay I needed to move to Tunbridge Wells
There has been an odd entwining of my writing side and my slightly out of step side... the extra time in the day without the commute, the extra worry... I am turning into ‘disgusted from Tunbridge Wells’ Maybe not disgusted, maybe concerned. Or disturbed Or just...
Wouldn’t want to end up in A&E with indigestion right now – More tales from lockdown SE3
To these nouveau-borlotti- purchasers, i ask, are you actually eating them, or turning them into necklaces with your kids?