Pouring rain and howling winds, so we drove to Aberaeron from our house in New Quay. It’s a lovely town, built by the Rev. Alban Gywne in 1807 using his wife’s inheritance – there’s no […]
Archive | December, 2013
not christmas day
Christmas was relocated to 27 December so that everyone could meet up for a reasonably leisurely lunch and present-exchange. It proved a good plan, leaving space for silly games and conversation. Using the contents of […]
serpentine 2
… and this is the other half of the ‘synthesis of old and new’, also designed by Zaha Hadid. The extension is, it seems, only a smart restaurant and has no visual connection to the […]
serpentine 1
To the new Serpentine Gallery extension – the Sackler Gallery – where Jake and Dinos Chapman have an exhibition. It’s very varied, and has some lovely things (as well as being pretty dark, as expected). […]
failure to photograph
The great kitchen launch completely failed to be photographed by us, or indeed by anyone, as had one of the reasons for celebration. We were brought the most wonderful things by all sorts of people […]
a tale of two pies
Rachel came round to help cook for the grand kitchen launch, and was brilliant help. We made two raised pies*, for nostalgic reasons on my part. One was mostly chicken, the other veal and pork. […]
unrecognisable
The kitchen has finally moved out of my workroom. The boxes of stuff that have been lurking since the work started in April have gone to new homes, and I had to make a start […]