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Oliver Phillips »
Bubba Gump is crossed off the wish-list
Posted on 11:55am Monday 21st May 2012
THE first complete day in New Orleans, I achieved a number of aims. I had a pot of gumbo (meat and sausage gumbo). I also had a mint julep and finished off in the evening with catfish and pecan – the nuts offsetting the distinct but slightly muddy but far from unpleasant taste of my first-ever Mississippi catfish.
Catherine Cain »
We won't be winning any medals for design this summer
Posted on 11:33am Monday 21st May 2012
Any day now the Olympic torch will be passing through a town or a village near you. No doubt hordes of people will turn out to cheer on the progress of an object that looks like a golden cheese grater crossed with a super-size cornetto.
Adam Parsons »
Don't have a pop at France, except about pop
Posted on 10:05am Friday 18th May 2012
You may just have noticed, but things are going a little squeaky in the Eurozone at the moment.
Ann Janes »
'OF CABBAGES AND KINGS'
Posted on 1:38pm Monday 14th May 2012
It really is true that 'greens are good for you' and they don't come much greener than members of the cabbage family.
Oliver Phillips »
Who needs Mardi Gras in Spring when a September night is madly busy?
Posted on 8:30pm Thursday 10th May 2012
WE had thought about going to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Well, that was the original intent but after seeing the French quarter in New Orleans on an autumn Friday and Saturday, we realized that would have been madness.
Catherine Cain »
A ghostly tale from your lobby correspondent
Posted on 11:15am Tuesday 8th May 2012
Being trapped in a pitch black lobby in my 300-year-old office after hours has made me reassess my love of the ghost story.
Ann Janes »
HAVE A GO AT GROWING YOUR OWN MINI VEG
Posted on 12:22pm Sunday 6th May 2012
I think it was Mark Twain who described the cauliflower as 'a cabagge with a college education'.
Adam Parsons »
World class and right on our doorstep
Posted on 9:30am Friday 4th May 2012
So we went to see the Harry Potter tour. We're hardly alone in that because if you're reading this, and you live within kicking distance of Leavesden, there's a decent chance you've done exactly the same.
Oliver Phillips »
Travelex. Let our card increase the strain of your holiday
Posted on 1:36pm Thursday 3rd May 2012
RELAX and let Travelex take the strain while on holiday. That is what the blurb suggests but the Cash Passport provided by Travelex did not enable me to relax. Far from it: it caused considerable aggravation.
Oliver Phillips »
I pulled into Nazareth, I was feeling 'bout half-past dead
Posted on 2:40pm Thursday 26th April 2012
WHEN I read the news, my mind went back to the late 1960s, when so many rock groups seemed to have bizarre names as the psychedelic era held sway and, whether they called themselves Curved Air or Tangerine Dream or Plastic Tomcat, they wore clothes to evoke the Technicolor kaleidoscope of the those fused sounds.
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