Food

Festival at last

Other than an outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s ‘As you like it’ a couple of weeks back, my festival going has been a bit non existant this year… So today it was off to the Foodie Festival for some fine food – and meeting up with Nicci Kitchin before seeing brother…

Gunshots ring out across Edinburgh

Well in the Edinburgh Festival Theatre as we watched Blood Brothers anyway… Didn’t have a clue what to expect – had heard of it but somehow avoided knowing the story until last night. Was tired after a long week at work and then a decent meal at B’est but the…

Yum

Struggling to find somewhere to pop in for a warming cup of hot chocolate and a snack lunch that wasn’t full of bored/irate/suicidal shopper on Saturday mid-afternoon we headed down Broughton Street. Ended up in a wee place called Pani Solinska that is a Polish (can’t you guess?) restaurant. Freshly…

I'm turning Australian

Not really, but after 3 Barbecues in 3 days maybe I should. Friday night it was 2 or 3 chums for lots of home made stuff from masterchef Lorraine, including meat and veggie burgers, salsa, hummous, salad, and chutney. Then Satuday is was off to Craigs for a few hours…

Paris

Just back from a fantastic, if at some stages frantic, weekend in Paris. As if you weren’t aware dear reader, that I have been doing the website for Mark Beaumont and his attempt to smash the World Record for cycling round the world. So off to Paris Lorraine and I…

Rhod Gilbert

Works night out last night to Rhod Gilbert’s 1984 at the Pleasance Courtyard Cellar. Unknown to all of us, but he performed a relaxed and funny show in front of a capacity crowd in the cellar (about 80 folk….) Definitely recommend him for a harmless, sometimes rambling story of why…

More Festival Stuff

Great food in a place called Blonde followed by a most amusing show called NewsRevue 24/7. Basically a mix of topical news related comedy sketches and musical numbers performed at a frenetic pace. Was most amusing if a bit close to the bone sometimes. See if you can make up…