[gallery type="circle" ids="961,964,958,960,967,968,969,974,971,973,972,977,978,979,980,981,982,983,985,986,989,990,991,993,994,995,997,999"] It's sunny in July! In the North West of England, this usually makes headlines...
[gallery type="circle" ids="815,807,808,811,812,813,814"] Recently Jon and I spent an evening with the ferocious Green Fairy, or as absinthe is also often referred to as: 'Death in the Afternoon'. Yeah, she's no tinkerbell. The last time I drank absinthe I had to be carried out of a Barcelona bar, oblivious...
[gallery ids="496,488,498,490,491,492,493,494,495"] This cocktail is a bit special. One, because it is delicious and a lot of fun, and two because it contains some rather special hail stones. I shall explain. Last August, there was a freak storm over the vineyard. It rained and it hailed, damaging...
[gallery ids="516,518,519,520,521"] Heritage, where do we find our heritage? My mother's family are Scottish, yet she was born in South Africa. My father's family are fiercely Welsh (my grandfather Cliff Bere wrote the Welsh Republican Movement Manifesto and had a taste for burning the Union Jack) yet...