Category: Food & Drink

Giovanni’s Room

The Italian Grand Prix is celebrating its centenary this year. Monza is synonymous with F1 GP like Silverstone in Bucks – the county not the club.

Home Cooking

This is what I should have been listening to as I made tonno e fagioli yesterday morning but there is no CD player in the kitchen. I have ordered one and it will be delivered today.

Another Hammersmith Horror

Another bit of interesting architecture falls to the wrecker’s ball. It was a vaguely Art Deco garage ( a miniature Hoover building) although it has been empty for a few years as a developer bought up the whole block.

Louis Brochet

I have been asked not to write this post. I will not compromise, I will give you the scoop.

Milkmaids’ Passage

There was a smutty joke at school. “What went up Judy’s Passage?” “Lupton’s Tower.” This passage connects The Green Park with a courtyard at the end of St James’s Place, previously a stable yard.

Walnut

In this picture the peregrine chick is thirty-six days old. Nathalie expects her to fledge in about a week.