Tag: food & drink
Good stuff to eat and drink.
Terry and Vikki, together with Everett and Lucille from Canmore (Canada) met up to climb in El Potrero Chico near Monterrey in Mexico at the end of November, a time when the weather is particularly amenable to rock climbing around there. Terry and Everett take trip to the desert, not far from Hidalgo, the base …
For those that don’t like things that are too sloe, take a tip from me and get your gin quickly. All you need is: some cash (wonga) transport (your feet may do) a shop a pair of eyes (I suppose one eye would do) a shopping basket (or trolley if you need more than several …
Last year we collected a load of sloe berries to make some amazingly tasty sloe gin (check here for that). In fact it was so tasty that we’ve done the same again this year! Although with the wet summer this year the berries were much fatter. Yee ha, should be even tastier!!! We are much …
Being a bit (okay, a lot) of a grown-up kid, I planted a load of sunflower seeds this summer. Actually, I planted some last year too, but I planted them straight into the garden and the slugs (and mice!) ate them all before they got established. This year I grew them for a few weeks …
The girls had planned to go to the theatre in Keswick on Friday, but the show was cancelled, so Anna arranged a gastronomic night out in Cockermouth at the newly opened Spice House Indian restaurant.
Not the fattest Sloe berries, but it has been a very dry summer.
