when the going gets tough

The tough get … cooking. perlmonger has been up to his eyes today configuring servers; that’s not something that I can really help with, so I had a cooking frenzy. I made Some soda bread for lunch – my Irish grandmother made a loaf of this every morning, and it’s delicious. I actually use a…

a spectacular badger moment

In the mornings, I’m currently drinking Chai, made by dunking a teabag in a mug. perlmonger is far more pernickity, and mixes his own blends in an ad hoc sort of way, and brews the resulting beverage in a Bodum tea pot. I went down just now to fetch our second cups. I filled the…

don't have a cow, man

Yesterday afternoon, we trundled up to Telford, to collect half a cow from the inestimable Steve Rawlings. This is rather less meat than it sounds, as Dexters are small beasts anyway, and this was a small beast in Dexter terms too. On the way home, we stopped at a farm shop somewhere in Shropshire for…