Category: Food & Drink

Small Sausages

In the world of Chips his friends are rich although, until he married Honor Guinness, he wasn’t, but he splashed out and relied on his father to stump up. He did.

Cosmopolitan

Many people find a slice of lemon in a beverage such as a gin and tonic provides an adequate vitamin supplement, if taken twice daily.

Pick and Mix

The young man at the newsagent caught Covid so The Times doesn’t get delivered until lunchtime, when his manager closes the shop and makes the deliveries himself.

Dining with Duff

After yesterday’s quite emotional post, unlike Duff Cooper, I’d like to get back on to lighter fare.

Covid Cuisine

I hope you will agree that food porn is harmless. I like this shot because the photographer just had to eat most of the nuts and have a slurp of the red before taking the picture. I like the look of the garlic bread.

Eating with Anatole

Handel was employed for just under two years by the 1st Duke of Chandos at Cannons, his immense Baroque/Palladian pile in Stanmore, Middlesex. Under the Duke’s patronage he composed the Chandos Anthems and “other important works”, says Wikipedia vaguely.

Troubles

The demolition of the Magistrates’ Court reflects my emotions and perhaps our situation.

Joy in the Morning

I bring tidings of great joy. Until some twenty years ago DR Harris and Co, est. 1790, chemists and perfumers in St James’s Street, served a pick-me-up to be consumed at the shop counter or to be taken away. Now they have brought it back with a new receipt.