Last week we were given a brief respite in the weather. In fact we had a positive heat wave with temperatures reaching the heady heights of 9degC, which of course meant all the white stuff melted. But just as we began to think that Spring might be around the corner, it blinking well came […]
Food
Mint Pies… (Traditional English Mince Pies)
Look what we made with the “treasure” we found in the rather compact “foreign muck” section of the supermarket! Considering I didn’t actually get anything on the day itself, this could well have been my present from Saint Nicholas – I just had to search for it: – Yes, yes, I know you can make […]
Saturday Pancakes
Buttermilk isn’t hard to find here… The first time I came across it was on my French Exchange, where the family I was staying with obviously mistook my fussy 13-year-old self for someone who loved buttermilk, and presented me with a huge bowl every morning. I will never know how I managed to eat it, […]
Six Hours in Strasbourg
Ok, so I will admit that Strasbourg and I didn’t exactly start off on the right foot. I had woken up with a stinking cold, and my mood was not helped by someone having left my coat in Munich, and it being a shade too froid for my liking without it. But we were […]
Parkin
No not parking, Parkin. You can breathe a sigh of relief this post isn’t about that and my general lack of parking ability, because if it was we might be here for quite some time… Anyway, as I have mentioned before, this Expat life is all very well and good, but making sure my two […]