Posted in Food, Friends, Photos on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
People, if you want to win friends and influence people: make this.
Let’s just back up here. On Tuesday night we had an impromptu dinner with friends. Snowy weather and high winds made the lamb stew very appropriate fare. For afterwards we all indulged in chocolate fudge. Perhaps a closer, better lit look at this gooey [...]
Posted in For giggles, Me, Weather on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
I had intended to cheer the blog up with a few less weather-orientated, more cheerful posts. I even have a couple of half posts in Word; one about a chocolate heaven recipe and one describing the Steak in Chicago.
However, on the morning news yesterday the weatherman pointed out the following, and I feel compelled to [...]
Posted in Chicago, Chicago Restaurants, Church, Food, Friends, Life in America, Me, Restaurants and Hotels, Weather, Weekend Update on January 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Something must happen on a Thursday night to make me want to take photographs on a Friday because I was inspired to find a bag big enough for J’s camera on Friday and fully intended to take lots of pictures. Sadly, it was freezing cold and one appointment overran into another, meaning I only managed [...]
Posted in Chicago, Friends, Life in America, Photos, The Apartment, Weather, Weekend Update on January 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It seems, that, as the temperatures plummet, my ability to string a sentence together and hit publish dwindles too.
Curling up on the sofa with fleecy tops and blankets doesn’t seem to inspire any words. On reflection, maybe the problem is that curling up in front of the TV results in few tall tales to tell. [...]
Posted in Chicago, Christmas, Food, Friends, Life in America, Me, Photos on January 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For Christmas, we were sent several rescue packages from wonderful, wonderful people. One arrived just last week. Some contained old favorites, others contained new things to try, all of them contained some form of chocolate. (We love you all.)
One, and only one, contained this:
So hard to describe, so utterly British. A taste of home. The [...]
