Anchovy marinato
[caption id="attachment_266" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="our rosemary hedge, now officially declared out-of-control"][/caption] Just before two o’clock this afternoon, when...
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A little too close for comfort
[caption id="attachment_260" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Yesterday's conflagration"][/caption] Two wild fires in the last week have kept the municipal fire...
Campari Time
[caption id="attachment_257" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The view from the terrace"][/caption] Sitting here on the high terrace of our old...
St. John’s Burger
Here I am in England for a few days to see family and friends – and to join...
Carry on up the Okanagan
Just back from a 36-hour flying visit to the Okanagan for the media launch of the Canadian Culinary...
Yorkshire notes
There are a few more things about my recent week in Yorkshire that had better be said before...
Yorkshire pudding
It’s interesting to play the tourist in my own country. I’ve been away from England for almost 30...
Heads or Tails?
I’m in England now, staying in London for a couple of days before going north to the Yorkshire...
New York in Toronto
Yesterday, I had a glimpse of the almost-finished Thompson Toronto, the city’s latest boutique hotel, designed by New...
Good Things To Do
The Petraia Sessions sounds like a high-speed action thriller or a jazz veteran’s comeback cd but it’s actually...