The weather had been glorious for a few days now, summer has finally arrived to the North of England. Mike offered to take me out for a drive in his old convertible MGB to enjoy the sun. So we took the roof down, wrapped up warm and set off on a greyer morning than we had hoped. Our intention was...

  Gregory Bazire is the chef/owner of the Poisson Rouge in Baga River, India and Andrew and I got to know him whilst we attended a teacher trainings course in India. Sushumna Yoga worked in partnership with Gregory to provide a vegan diet, which was 70% raw & living food, and I have to...

"Have you got any plans on Saturday?" Mike asked me last week. This raised my interest, he never asks me questions like that. I knew he was attending a war games show in Dumfries on that day and he had obviously been hatching plans. "No, not really" I replied nonchalantly "Why?" "Well the war-games...

Andrew had been home for a few days and we took him, and an enormous bag of washing, back to Newcastle. If you follow my blog you will already know that our 18 year old son does not consider us cool or like to be seen with us in public. As such he dumped us as soon as we had helped him take his...

I love a good steak but I struggle to get a good one in this country. I think that part of the problem is that I like my steak rare and no one appears to believe that when I say rare I mean it. Invariably it comes out medium rare and that to me is a waste of a good piece of red meat. We noticed...