3BT – five from after dinner
1. The red, yellow, pink and white are all tinged with black. 2. I put some Encona (scotch bonnet pepper) sauce in the marinade and while it doesn’t overwhelm, it is definitely there. John runs out for the bus with his last skewer and texts ten minutes later to say his lips are still tingling. [...]
A long weekend on Lindisfarne – Sunday
Another 9.30am get up on Sunday – with the same streaming sunlight but instead of getting up early to get off the island, I got up early to do some work (boo). John read in the conservatory and photographed frogs in the garden’s pond while I worked and the plan was that I’d finish at [...]
A long weekend on Lindisfarne – Saturday
We woke up around 9.30 on Saturday – which if you know us will have you gasping out loud in surprise. We’re not morning people and usually only get up at around 11 on a weekday (hurrah for working for ourselves), let alone at the weekend. We didn’t really have any plans for Saturday but [...]
A long weekend on Lindisfarne – Friday
We’ve just got back from a long(ish) weekend in a cottage on Lindisfarne, just off the coast of Northumberland. We drove up on Friday and planned to get to the island just before the causeway shut at 2.15pm. I somehow managed to get the maths wrong so we ended up leaving for the three hour [...]