It can be almost as big an event as Christmas dinner itself – deciding what to do with the left overs the next day! When it comes to up-cycling left over Christmas Dinner veg, in our house there is no contest, it has to bubble and squeak (so-called because of the bubbling and […]
Frohe Weihnachten
It can be fun gearing up to Christmas in a land that’s not your own, but I always always find it really hard being away from friends and family at this time of year – that part will never be easy (logistical reasons mean that we tend to alternate between here and home)… I like […]
O Tannenbaum
As far as white Christmases go, we haven’t done too badly during the festive seasons we have spent away from home. Two of them have been snow filled – one of them overly so – we were grateful for the snow-blowing machine that came with the house that year I can tell you… As […]
Sunday Photo – Angel
A ship’s Angel – found in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
Mincemeat…
If you are lucky, you can occasionally find jars of mincemeat here. If you are lucky, and if you start looking at the end of August perhaps… Any later, and you have had it – fellow “Englishers” (or other curious folk) will have beaten you to the few prize jars of Robinsons that sit surrounded […]