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A reprieve, you say…

The small print in the last post should definitely have been something along the lines of “may actually be an oncoming train”.

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Cooking Awesome; or, A Week in the Life of a (wannabe) Trainee Chef

A week, so sweet, so brief, so soon over; such was my experience on the Leiths School of Food and Wine Intermediate Cooking Skills course.

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A break, and then a break

Writing this as we sit on a cute little BA turboprop plane on the way back from Dusseldorf, it seems like the Christmas season has snuck up and well and truly begun already.

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An Autumn Studded with … Bits

Ok, so when I say Autumn I specifically mean “since the last post”, i.e. late August/all of September.

And when I say ‘Bits’ I mean “we’ve done various small things”.

And now that I’ve decoded the title for you all, on with the show!

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Snapshots; A Life on Hold

Forgive the slightly morose title, but I warn you now – there’ll be more of that in this post, and not much in the way of new interesting things!

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