Monthly Archives: August 2007

Food for naught

My grandmother lived to the ripe old age of eighty nine. She had lived life to the full and if there was anyone for whom the famous bard’s quote “All the world’s a stage” would fit as her epitaph it would be her. She loved the drama of life. She could cry at the merest

Mouth watering.

September is near. This means apple pie from fresh apples and pears for desert… even a relatively small garden can be a boon! (click picture for a larger view) Some links: apple pie recipe and another one poached pears with Grand Marnier custard sauce custard sauce to go wit the pie next year I’m going

In-game life.

Games I am playing on my ps2 at the moment include Final Fantasy X, Gran Turismo 4, Burnout point of impact, Call of Duty 3 and Splinter Cell Pandora tomorrow. I’m not playing them all at once obviously but I’m in the process of playing them on and off. Actually I have finished Call of

Watching the mini.

I may have blogged about it before but I have stopped watching regular tv. About three years ago I pulled the plug on cable and switched to watching DVD’s if anything. It was amazing how much time I suddenly had and after the first cold sweats and shivers of going cold turkey it was actually