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A much needed weekend at home.  Its been ages. In fact, I think that this may just have been the second weekend I have had to myself at home since I left for Australia in October ( Read more... )

Well, the trip home from Istanbul started reasonably well. But I got to Frankfurt to discover that pretty much every plane in Europe was delayed or cancelled due to snow.  My flight was delayed by 2 hours. While I was waiting I wandered off to find a drink, and when I got back the plane had apparently taken off without me! So I ended up stuck in a ( Read more... )

 A rough night's rest. Strange bed, strange city, none of my stuff, power blackouts, too thin curtains, no earplugs or eye-mask as they are in my suitcase, and the early morning call to prayer at sunrise all mean that I feel less than refreshed.  I also had a weird dream in which evildrakey turned up, pulled mushy bananas out of a plastic bag (as well as a ( Read more... )

 Well, my journey to Istanbul started at 3pm when I headed out the door. It is 1.30am now and here I am, in a very petite room in the old centre of Istanbul sans baggage.  Damn, my wide headbands were all in there - I have found when I travel to Muslim countries, wearing these is sensible.  They aren't a full headscarf, but do give a nod to the ( Read more... )

So, I didn't manage to get to the gym this weekend, but I DID manage to cook the following:

• Gingerbread (cooked, iced and looking very pretty)
• Snowballs (almond and hazelnut macaroons)
• White Christmas (a la Kiriel, made with white chocolate and dried cranberries among other things)
• giant mandarin caramel cookies
• deepest darkest chocolate fudge ( Read more... )

Inspired by miladyred , I am going to give myself a big public pat on the back for actually getting my tush to the gym tonight even in the face of my mp3 player having run out of juice! I managed to have a good one hour workout lifting heavy things. Despite not having been for an age, I still managed 30kg weights for my back, 20kg on the abdominal ( Read more... )

The day today was mostly much much better. I met up with my big brother who is briefly in town, and we spent some lovely hours together and ate some very yummy cheese and terrine ( Read more... )

I have just returned from the weekend in Stockholm. In the end the event seemed to go really well. People did have some problems quite understanding the way the food was working, so instead of just trying a little piece of each thing (all the food having been made in bite sized pieces) they inhaled the first lot of food, and then got more and ( Read more... )

The UAE blocks Flickr? That's why I haven't posted here any of my photos from Abu Dhabi. Watch this space.

Raining and 12 degrees in Geneva. Why did I come back again... someone remind me?