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But Nota Bene Dear Reader: this blog is NOT limited to my recipe and restaurant ramblings alone! I shall also take it upon myself to decribe my various other encounters and experiences in this wonderful world we all share. Expect recommendations of excellent service received, for example, and lively discussions on a variety of exhilerating sublects like as Fashion, Art, Education, Religion and Fitness my word. Not forgetting my regular Favourite Albums of the Month / Year feature. Are you ready? Then enter Freunde, Étranger, Stranger…
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Black Moth, Anatomical Venus – AOTM January 2019
As hardly any of you know, I spent my holiday period in Newcastle. Hence my intake of new music was accelerated, as is frequently the case, by proximity to my father, Paul. Nonetheless Anatomical Venus was my own discovery. And to see it here, bestowed with the...
Dope Burger – Love in a Hopeless Place, Hull
Dear readers, Fate is an interesting thing. At times we cannot avoid its indomitable sway. Resistance in these circumstances is totally futile. One must simply accept the overwhelming forces of destiny. AMOR FATI. And so the fates had contrived to place me in, of all...
The Bell Inn, Tanworth-in-Arden – Paradisiac Sunday Lunch
As has become our habit, Louise and I went out for Sunday Lunch after Mass last week. Being a dame of great discernment and grace, one can but choose the finest establishments at which to dine, while in her company. Hence, the week before last, we ate at The Bell Inn,...
The Beech House – So You Can Eat Well In Solihull
Dear loyal reader, Interested observers often ask me what it is like being friends with Cedric Conboy. To this I can only reply, with the utmost respect, that it is a wild ride. Not only do I now find myself charged with the task of writing a guest restaurant review,...
Low Lights Tavern – Best Pub in Town, North Shields
If you weren't as yet aware, I spent some time in Newcastle over the festive period. Truly, it must be unnerving to not know what I am doing every second of every day, but such is the benefit conferred to those who have broken free from the iron grip of social media....
Di Marco – Genuinely Astounding Italian, Newcastle
When one is in central Newcastle, they can find it difficult to avoid the luring prospect of spending their lunchtime in a well-known chain restaurant. As you know, I am on a crusade against commercial eateries. Giving one's money to enormous enterprises does not...