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Potato cakes with smoked mackerel with beetroot

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:29:00 +0000

Some left over mashed potato provided a good opportunity to put together a recipe for potato cakes with smoked mackerel. Beetroot…

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:17:00 +0000

And like every other living thing we are putty in the hands of the changing seasons. Not an original thought, but…

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:59:00 +0000

Some pictorial highlights from a recent week in snow-bound Istanbul.

It was my third visit to the old city, a busy…

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:26:00 +0100

Jean Valentine was born in Scotland in 1924. She was an only child, and like many of her contemporaries, she left…

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:31:00 +0100

…as simply messing about in boats. Grahame's maxim was put to the test by thousands of boaters during the Queen's astonishing…

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:04:00 +0100

It's been an operatic sort of month. First a highly ritzy and very gay take on Mozart's Don Giovanni at the…

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Sat, 26 May 2012 11:54:00 +0100

Devoted art lover or not? You might want to consider a trip to Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire where the latest experiment…

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:08:00 +0100

There are leaping dolphins at Othona, and butterflies flying to the moon, too. These are wall decorations at a place by…

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:13:00 +0000

I have been out and about to the east of London today, getting home with the sun on my face after…

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:28:00 +0000

I enjoyed this morning's discussion on Radio 4's 'Start the week' – check the link for iPlayer listening.

The participants were…

noreply@blogspirit.com (diaphania) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:54:00 +0000

As a boy I loved trees. Not just walking amongst them, but climbing as high as I could manage into them.…