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spiced cherries and the rest of Germany

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We were in Germany last week. It was my first time there.We were in the Middle Rhine region being looked after by the Romantic Rhine tourist people – and very nice they were too. We had dinner at Le Chopin restaurant in the Bellvue Hotel, Boppard. What a lovely meal.I had liver served with the […]

Ooooh this Facebook thing is addictive

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My name is Ellen and I’m hooked on Facebook. Husband – the panther of news – has just told me to get off the site as I’m supposed to be working while he cooks.I can’t help myself. It’s the inner stalker. One sniff and she’s off tracking down all the people she ever knew – […]

Leaping on a passing trend

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I just got a facebook message from my mother. Thanks mum, I am so impressed.I haven’t quite got to grips with the facebook phenomena but I did notice that there didn’t seem to be a way of saying that your facebook friend is your husband or wife. Is marriage just too square for cyber socialising […]

Boots on again

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We like to walk, it’s probably a family thing. Whenever we get together we’ve always set out – whatever the weather – for a stroll.The newer members of the family can’t quite get their heads round it, but they indulge us.“It’s cats and dogs outside so off you pop for a nice hike. Yeah, don’t […]

sole survivor

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The fish can’t counter While communications interruptus was playing havoc with my karma I decided to take the boys to visit our brand new, enormous and very shiny Tesco. See how inventive I get when it comes to entertaining my children – Supernanny etc eat your organised hearts out.Tesco Port Glasgow is indeed huge and […]

lightening load

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Or is the offshore call centre industry a funky new replacement for hair shirts and beds of nails? On Tuesday night, my last thought before I fell asleep was that the storm was very noise with all that thunder. Then I was off to Nod. Next day I couldn’t log on… Oh. And the telly […]

elders not wiser

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I’m quite getting into my stride with this blogging business. It’s great – if no one wants to listen to my ramblings, it doesn’t matter. I just write it here and fling it into cyberspace. Here’s today’s…We all know that language evolves – and so it should, it’s an organic thing.Yet when something new arrives […]

Barbecued monkfish

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They were chunky and juicy and wrapped in basil and palma ham. Absolutely delicious and far prettier than the picture. We were at our friend’s new house and managed to squeeze a sneaky BBQ in before the deluge. Actually it probably wouldn’t have mattered as the exceptionally snazzy new barbecue had a lid. Don’t suppose […]