Welsh cakes If you've never eaten a Welsh cake, you've missed out. They're delicious, and I don't care that you don't like dried fruit, I'm pretty sure you're still going to love Welsh cakes.The first time I ate Welsh cakes was with a Welsh friend, who lived nearby (not in Wales). A bunch of her …
Author: jaynage
England – cheating
Not the team, me, I've been cheating. It's been a long week, horrid weather, suddenly colder and the dark! Oooh it gets dark early doesn't it? What is the quintessential English dish? A Sunday roast? Shepherds pie? Cottage pie? Given their prevalence, history, and anglicisation, I even considered putting lasagne and chicken tikka masala in the …
Recipe source
Before I launch into everything I'm cooking and eating, I thought I'd share the source for a number of recipes. A few years ago, around 2018/2019 while we were visiting the in-laws, we visited RAF Cosford in Shropshire. It's not far from Telford or Ironbridge, and has 5 hangars of aircraft showing the history of …
Alternative World Cup
Hopefully you saw my feelings regarding the forthcoming world cup, and the human rights track record of Qatar in both the building of the stadia and the use of migrant workers, as well as their treatment of the LGBTQ community. It doesn't sit well with me and I doubt I'm alone. So, an alternative world …
Football or not…
Don't let the title put you off, I'm not massively into football either. I don't really have a team that I follow, although I am in possession of my late Grandfather's QPR mug; and my phone knows where I live, so gives me my local championship team's results whether I want them or not.I do …
Long time no speak
Hello, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here, and I’m about to get up and running again. This is a kind of test post, with a picture, to start me off. I’ve got an exciting new series of posts coming up, so do stay tuned.
Fillet Steak
So I’ve been talking about food a lot recently with my friends and not done a lot of sharing here. So here is my ‘boyfriend winning’ steak topping recipe. I always got another date after I’d served this recipe, and it’s been a firm favourite of my husband’s since I served it to him. It’s …
Grown up presentation
I had originally titled this post ‘Pointless and distracting Powerpoint graphics’ and while that was overly wordy, it also didn’t cover everything that annoyed me. For years I’ve been working in organisations where the use of PP has been prevalent, who hasn’t? It did it exactly what is supposed to, show slides. In the initial …
Reaching Out
I saw another terribly sad social media post not so long ago from someone who had a lost a former colleague to suicide, saying how happy that person had seemed, how they’d been coping, how they were a strong person and thus urging others feeling like that, to reach out. Sadly, it doesn’t work like …
Feelings
I don’t normally write about anything sensible, and certainly nothing to do with feelings or emotions, but 2020 has been bonkers so I think it’s OK to go off script a little. One of the reasons I don’t talk much about feelings and emotions is because I’m not very good at it, I struggle to …
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