Category Archive: eating out

254 – Time out

254 – Time out

Time today for a lunch in the sun with Marica – simultaneously relaxed and tense – have a bite of lunch, waiting for proofs from …

 

248 – Damian turns 27

248 – Damian turns 27

Today’s Damian’s birthday. Talk about one small step for man, one giant step for mankind. D’s bent the rules and beat the odds for some …

 

148 – Are you lonesome tonight

148 – Are you lonesome tonight

Are you lonesome tonight Do you miss me tonight Are you sorry we drifted apart Does your memory stray to a bright sunny day When I kissed you and …

 

146 – Holding many hands

146 – Holding many hands

Tonight, a real treat for me. I accepted a counter offer of a meal with friends. The counter offer was because I’d extended the initial …

 

134 – Morning jolt

134 – Morning jolt

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of …

 

130 – Food for the soul

130 – Food for the soul

One of the ultimate comfort foods as far as I am concerned is soup – especially my mama’s ‘juha od kokos’ (a clear homemade chicken …

 

116 – Merry Christmas

116 – Merry Christmas

Sretan Bozic Merry Christmas Meri Kirihimete Wesolych Swiat Glædelig Jul 6.00am -  Christmas day began. 7.30am – Breakfast with Lynsey, Mira and Damian. 8.00am – We started to share out our presents …

 

111 – Retail in the Raw

111 – Retail in the Raw

There’s been open air markets here in Wellington probably since the first humans arrived. More recently – in the last couple of years – as …

 

107 – Retro food

107 – Retro food

Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what’s for lunch. – Orson Welles If I am to believe what I read then it would …

 

096 – Sinterklaas and friends

096 – Sinterklaas and friends

There is real magic in each person you know, and that magic is multiplied by the people your people know (and so on). All that …