My people call me the dude. I share my teachings in the passages below... (along with many typos, grammatical errors and lazy writing)
I quite like Waitrose's chicken and vegetable soup for lunch when working from home. There's occasionally a tiny strand of chicken in a spoon full when eating it. I bought some more yesterday and cooked some for m lunch and there is actually large pieces of chicken breast in there. Either i've been very unlucky over the past 5 years i've been buying it or they've listened to customer feedback and have actually started to add proper bits of chicken.
We met one of the other rugby families out for a roast on Sunday. The Rock Inn, Chiddingstone. It was great fun.
The kids last day of their summer holidays is today so they're home with me. I'm still working so have done very little parenting. The kids have been good so I took them out to our local Turkish for lunch. Yum!
I took Arwen out for a big walk yesterday lunch time. It was nice, probably one of the last nice ones weatherwise we'll get for a while.
Our usual Sommelier Soiree group (dinner party) decided to go on tour this Sunday and headed into London We usually take turns and go round each others houses, each taking it in turn cooking starters, mains and deserts, whilst sampling 6 bottles of wine.
This time we went to Marjorie's, on the recommendation from the Guardian's food critic Grace Dent
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/jul/06/marjories-london-w1-restaurant-review-grace-dent
It was pretty good. It was a sort of a small plate sharing affair similar to tapas where we had lamb carpaccio, escargot, langoustine, beef and an awful lot of cheese.
We were home in time at 6 for our childminder who looked after our 2 and another couple of kids from the other 2 couples.
April took Arthur to a birthday party so I asked Flo what she wanted for lunch. She said Thai, so I took her round the corner. Just as the food turned up I got a call April reminding that Flo had a rearranged singing lesson. Doh! Oh well.
I was only just chatting to April on Monday about the fact that Jon (the landlord at my local) start making rolls again. I even discussed price. I felt £2.50 was about right. They haven't had a chef since before Christmas and there are always people coming in asking if they do food. Yesterday, he started doing them again! He must must have a listening device planted on me somewhere or maybe i'm in my very own less Hollywood version of the Truman Show. And yes, they were £2.50.
I've had a couple of days off ill this week. Nothing serious, just a pretty bad cold. Yesterday wasn't so bad but still not great. I'm a bit better today so have popped out somewhere different for lunch. Kingdom. It's about 15mins drive from the house but is a pretty cool venue, if a little too hippy for me. It's also full of young mums and rich women who don't work. I should have brought my noise cancelling headphones.
I cooked my first Sunday lunch in ages yesterday. Pretty decent effort. I used my crinkle cutter for the potatoes, carrots and parsnips for extra surface area.
I made tuna tacos for lunch on Saturday
One on Saturday and a doubler this morning. Here's Arthur's all tuckered out before grabbing an impromptu lunch at Sankey's. 2 lobsters, some oysters and steak. I drew the short straw and had to drive so no nice wine for me. Both kids were excellent throughout.
