No, I haven’t changed orientation, not to worry, or speculate – in fact, you’ll see that at the end of this post. Originally much of this last week looked devoted to Google. Yes, Google. They were having some sort of international team-building event hosted here in BA for their engineers, apparently an annual happening. Upfront,… Read More Five Nights Straight

Now that I have your attention, which I probably did anyway since you didn’t, likely, stumble on this page by accident, it’s time for the write-up of last week’s dinners. I mean, enough about other restaurants, right? I’m not even going to venture a guess at the hit of the menu, the jury of guests… Read More Two Fish Swim Into a Sand Bar…

Bobo is one of those simple words that, depending on the language, can mean vastly different things. It’s also one of those sorts of simple words that seems to show up in almost every language. It could mean, as it does here, the village idiot, a fool, or elsewhere it could be something fake, something… Read More A Tale of Zucchini and Bobo

Just catching up on last week’s dinners – our internet has been wonky for the last two weeks, generally with service only a few hours per day, so posting has fallen by the wayside – a trio of nights packed with folk from various parts of the world, though a bit norteamericano focused (not entirely… Read More Now, Dat’s a Spicy Chicken

Somewhere in there last weekend’s dinners just didn’t get written up. I know they don’t write themselves, but there I was busy posting round-ups of last momth’s photos and didn’t even realize I hadn’t posted some of those that I should have. So, a trifle tardy, but a quick glimpse at what was served up… Read More A Range of Spice

Five years ago, back in our themed dinner days, we headed off to Middle Earth to celebrate Hobbit Day 2007, the 70th anniversary of the publication of the book. You can read all about it here. Although we’ve dropped the themed approach for the majority of our dinners, sometimes there’s still an inspiration from one… Read More Returning to the Shire, 5 Years On

It was a strange weekend for us – after last weekend’s three days packed with folk from ten different countries, it seemed the winter doldrums were over. But, just three folk reserved for Thursday, none for Friday, and four for Saturday. We ended up canceling the first two, one of those folk was able to… Read More Chocolate Day