My favourite time of year is here! Even though last week I was amongst the scantily clad in the Brockwell Park heat, this weekend confirms that winter is coming and its duffel coats for the foreseeab...
Continental Deli has reopened! Lordamercey. Feels like it’s been shut for a year rather than a couple of months. No other shop in Brixton has the smell this shop has and it inspires me to try n...
In the words of Boney M – Hooray! Hooray! It’s a halli-halli-day… I’m off work for a week and going back to the north east for a few days. To celebrate I clouded the flat with...
Adam said I should be burned at the stake for doing this. Apparently, people have been killed for less. A while ago everyone harped on about strawberries and balsamic vinegar. M&S even advertise ...
As I mentioned in a previous post, I picked up Delia Smith’s ‘Frugal Food’ from Herne Hill Oxfam a few weeks back. It’s a reissue of the 70s classic, adapted for modern cooking. I love Delia. I used ...
I worked backstage at Wireless Festival last weekend. Despite only being there for three days, I grew rather fond of crew catering, driving a buggy round Hyde Park and speaking through a radio. When ...
So we tried Honest Burgers in the village the other weekend. I’ve renamed it Honest Buggers. Sounds better in my northern accent. There’s been loads of buzz around the opening of this place, and quit...
Usually, the smugness of home made bread bakers grates on me. Despite mother and Sophia baking a lot by hand lately, I get mildly amused by those who harp on about their bread machines. I know that i...
That might be the title of my Brixton based memoirs. But for now, it summed up a Tuesday morning. I’ve always wanted to buy fresh fish from a proper fishmonger, but like most people felt a bit too ti...
Cabbage reminds me of poor people in Roald Dahl books and idiots. With the latter I’m referring to those on the Cabbage Soup diet. What a stupid diet. Whoever thought of – and promoted &#...
I don’t know where granola even came from. It’s something I only really had when I came to London, where everyone was eating it. Mainly from places like Pret with yogurt and fruit. I know...
Any long term reader will be aware of my love for a good old boiled egg and soldiers. Traditional, mind. Remember boiled duck egg and crumbs-gate? Hmm. I’m still not convinced. It’s a lov...
I have been ‘entertaining’ this weekend! It’s been quite a change for a loner like me. I thought that by having people around me will shoo away the awful reminder of going to work o...
So this is summer. Cue the jolly organ music, as over the past few weeks I’ve spent a day by the seaside, grazed in the E4 Udderbelly garden on the Southbank, ate ice cream in Brockwell Park, r...
I’m working hard lately, with most of the profits going straight to the butcher. If a year ago I had thought I’d be saying that, I’d have squealed like a pig. But I have taken a lik...
Lock up yer dentists! The ‘naughtiest vegan in town’ has pitched up in Brixton. I’d been very intrigued about the work going on in the shop unit next door to Rosie’s deli. Fir...
You may have noticed that Hellmann’s have been intent on convincing us that mayonnaise isn’t just for chips and sandwiches. You can use it in mashed potato, fish sauces, pasta salad dress...
You may recall me talking about The Manor Arms during my Streatham days. You remember the one, blackbirds poised on the roof ready to attack Hitchcock style, the aroma of dogs and damp around it? It&...
I’m not a huge fan of coffee shops. I like them. They’re unavoidable. But when I’m in the company of friends I prefer going to the pub and only really get the urge to sit in one whe...
I love going out for breakfast. However, it’s usually a pastime reserved for when I have guests. Not that I have many guests. Usually only me mam. But it’s a good way to start a day of wa...
The week started bad and ended up fabulous. I was taken to the theatre twice. Mother dear was down in London. I learned to make a mean chilli. I don’t think I’ve stopped laughing, and I&#...
I went to my first proper ‘bloggers event’ last month! Cadbury’s are really going to town with their title as the ‘Official treat provider of the Olympic Games 2012′ and...
Rhubarb is back! Well, in Marks & Spencers it is. Couldn’t find it anywhere else in Brixton today. I’ve been craving it for ages, which is hard to believe seeing as I never used to ca...
Today was worse than that time I let the spaniel get out and he nearly got knocked over in the road, or that time I got chewing gum in my hair, cut a chunk out of it myself and mam hit me over the he...
I talk a lot about food and things I’ve learned from mam on here, but one thing I rarely care to mention much is that she’s ran roughly 10 marathons (three in New York) and used to take a...
It really pisses me off when Londoners complain about being bored. I say ship them all off to Sydney when it’s chucking it down, then they’ll know boredom. I don’t work right in the...
I no longer live with a vegetarian now, so I have been released from the shackles of Quorn. I’m not sure if it’s the energy of a new kitchen or living in Brixton, but meat is certainly ba...
I am back, living and breathing in Brixton! And on the WORLD WIDE WEB thanks to some brilliant mind in my new building that doesn’t bother to lock their internet route. You think you know Brixt...
The move to Brixton begins tomorrow, so thought I’d share this brilliant video clip from Kibwe Tavares. You’ll love it, especially if you like robots or Brixton…
Brixton Village I got the key to my new place this weekend! At first I thought that they had closed Brixton High Street and the tube station especially for the occasion, but apparently it was down to...
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