March 2013

Last year I Adopted an Olive Tree for my Mum for her birthday.  Catch up here.  Fast forward to last weekend and it was time to visit the olive tree and pick its bountiful harvest.  No doubt like all the other adoptive parents, we had been watching the ominous skies and bucket loads of water… Read more

It’s funny how we copy down recipes for meals we have enjoyed or tear out pages surreptitiously in waiting rooms yet, we often don’t get around to making the dishes.  Before you know it, you’ve got a veritable library stashed away.  You edit and tidy but the pile grows again.  When I was travelling in… Read more

It’s been a bit of a hit and miss week at TIFFIN central.  It started out fine, with a visit to Lake Wivenhoe but then went rapidly downhill as I was hit by an ague that took me out for the entire week.  Somewhere towards the middle was a very forgettable birthday but as the… Read more

Gosh!  Remember in the not too distant past when not too much was happening in the sphere of world destabilisation?  In the period between the Cold War slowly melting and the rise of the supposed WMDs, things were fairly quiet on the Western Front.  So, like any self respecting civilisation, we decided to go to… Read more

My friend Maria told me about some cooking demonstrations she went to regularly.  She talked about how interesting they were and how amusing the presenter was.  Early in the new year, she sent an email with a list of up coming demonstrations so I chose a topic I thought we’d both be interested in and… Read more

We’re always on a tight schedule on weekends, packing in as much as possible.  This year we’ve been trying to see more movies and have made a good stab of it, with 5 visits racked up.  On Sunday we had decided to see Lincoln and for once, had enough time up our sleeves to grab… Read more