I have a good feeling about our backyard pantry this year. The fruit bushes I planted out in the kitchen garden are looking healthy with great signs of lots of berries to come. The trees in the orchard are starting to burst into life too with miniature figs,... It may not have the grandness of the Chateau Du Villandry but my mini potager has had a makeover and starting to house the first salad crops. After all the measuring and mathematics I’m just relieved to have got it to this state. Give it a few more weeks and... Despite it being t-shirt weather in Sydney it was a miserable cloudy day when I struck out on my own for a couple of hours with my camera. Intent on taking some pictures of the Opera House it turned out to be a real disappointment with a cloudy dull sky making the... MT judges the level of civility in a city by it’s capability to rustle up a grand afternoon tea in such a way that an Englishman abroad can feel right at home. We may have just missed Sydney’s latest foodie festival but it didn’t stop us partaking... If I ignored the people crawling like ants up the Sydney Harbour bridge I could imagine that I am back in Newcastle Upon Tyne where I spent many happy years living soon after I left University and got my first job. I couldn’t help but think wistfully of those... 