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DIY weekend

Monday, March 30th, 2009

I love tea

This blog was supposed to be about the fact that me and nic had made lots of awesome food from scratch this weekend. I’m gonna get it out the way quite quickly cause there’s a bigger more important announcement. We made blueberry muffins…damn they’re good, some big chunky veg soup and some awesome pizzas including the bases. good practice for packed lunch month coming up in april.

good use of pepperami

I’ve recently turned my back on coffee…there i’ve said it. We’ve been through alot me and coffee. but tea now makes up more than 28% of my body mass. I love it. For years I mocked…quaffed almost at tea drinkers so this is an official apology to all my tea drinking friends who’ve been telling me for years…now look at me! get a brew on!

Kingussie

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

kingussie

AWESOME weekend. Booked up a hotel and headed for the highlands. Got nic some walking boots and got a proper map of the surrounding area. Took monday and tuesday off work as nic had them off. All set. Got the bus up on saturday where we arrived at the hotel. I loved it. We went down and had a 3 course meal in the hotel. Lush. Sunday morning we got up bright and early had breakfast and went out with the map looking for adventure. There was an awesome amount of snow on the ground and hills. Some amazing views at the top of the golf course. Following the map…I quickly got us lost…HA it’s easy to follow the paths…until they’re burried under 1ft of snow. That’s my excuse and i’m sticking to it. We soon ended up stranded between deer fences…classic and had to go crossing streams. I loved it. Eventually we ended up in the back garden of this massive lodge…which was quite clearly private ground. Brilliant. Back into town where we stopped at the tipsy laird a pub in town where we had awesome soup and sandwiches.

scrabble and a pint…perfic

Back to the hotel our chef had done a runner so went to a filthy fish & chip shop (happy days) where we sat in and ate more than we probably should. Back to hotel for pints and scrabble. Great stuff. Had too much fresh air I think. Only had the 1 pint and felt quite tipsy.

Monday up early again for breakfast…full scottish of course. Headed out to ruthven barracks an old fort about 1 mile and a bit outside kingussie. A nice walk but all the snow had gone. Then into town to do a cafe crawl and eat cakes and drink coffee. Pams cafe. great cake. Bus home and back to Glasgow just in time to get in and order a dimaggios for delivery. Great stuff. Now it’s tuesday a proper day off celebrated by doing very little. Got to experience day time tv…first thing on this morning, A midget fashion show…I might take next week off :)

Christmas Sandwich: Marks and spencers

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

marks and spencers christmas sandwich

I love christmas…and I love sandwiches. When the two combine it duth make me very happy. That’s why this year I’m going to review every christmas sandwich glasgow has to offer. Off the starting blocks early this year with marks and spencers offering.

Ingredients:
turkey, ham, stuffing & cranberry chutney

Interesting they threw ham in the mix…This sandwich slightly let down by the fact it’s in a baguette…They’re always hard work. But a good start. Marks and spencers I’ll give a 7 out of 10…just for sheer girth.

No words required…

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

yum

Lazy Sunday

Monday, October 6th, 2008

yum

Nothing beats a nice quiet Sunday…beautiful sunshine…some good music…and some awful films on tv. YES IT DOES. A big filthy homemade beef stew served up in a yorkshire pudding bigger than andre the giants beret…sweet