Silver Screen Suppers

I am STARVING this morning.  I was DJing last night at the Rushes Soho “Best of British Tea Dance” which was so brilliant.  The food was all spread out like at a Women’s Institute cake sale and everything was home made and looked beautiful.  Home made battenburg cake – yum yum.  I did eat lots [...]

My first proper dinner for friends in my new flat was TERRIFIC!  Progress on the jigsaw was made and Rosalind found a bag of coins that had emerged from the lock up and decided to see how much money I had forgotten about.  She made neat piles of 1ps, 2ps, 5ps, 10ps, 20ps, 50ps and [...]

“Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.” Ha ha, how true. It’s true for women too, I’m only going to brightly lit nightspots from now on. And I shall get my failing eyesight checked. I didn’t get around [...]

“It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.” Rosalind came to dinner last night, my first supper guest in my new home and Maurice’s crouton bedecked soup went down a storm. I had forgotten to ask Rosalind if she liked onions but we both agreed [...]

“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.” Shirley (who is 9 years old) was very excited to be at her first hen night on Friday – mine. Well, a hen night of sorts. I’m [...]

MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmm! That was good. I made a rhubarb crumble with 6 sticks of rhubarb my mum plucked from the garden for me the other day. It was delicious. It was a bit sad that there was nobody there to share it with me… I had it for my breakfast before going for a crazy day [...]