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Amazing bread and butter pudding!
Unfortunately the size of the main course prevented me sampling this delight.
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Scarborough
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Old geezers
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Robin Hood’s Bay
Robin Hood’s Bay is a lovely old fishing village, just north of Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast.On this visit, however, the weather was dreadful, and we managed a coffee and a quick browse around the second-hand bookshop (all crime and romance!), before returning to our warm cottage. -
Magnetic fishing
From a distance we could see a man on the bridge repeatedly tossing a weighted line into the river below. It didn’t look like fishing, or crabbing. Sampling the water? Curiosity got the better of me. It turns out he was ‘magnetic fishing’ which is essentially treasure hunting under water. He had a strong magnet at the end of a long piece of cord, and was tossing this from the bridge into the river, hoping to pick up something metallic and valuable. This was his first outing with his new piece of equipment.
Interestingly he also used a metal detector in fields and had recently found a Roman coin from the 3rd century AD. The coin, which is only the second coin to be found of the emperor Proculus, is being auctioned in London on April 10th 2013 and has been valued at about £80,000.
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Spiral
Brilliant couple of Spiral episodes on BBC4 (review here). Great stuff.
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Berlin
We had a lovely 3 nights in Berlin over the weekend. We stayed in the Adina Apartment Hotel Hackescher Markt (see Hotels.com or TripAdvisor). The hotel and room were fabulous and in a great location.
On our first full day we had breakfast at the Frida Kahlo Mexican restaurant, which has some less than favourable reviews on the web but was fine for breakfast omelettes! The former headquarters of the East German State Security is now the Stasi Museum and is well worth a visit. In the evening we ate German at the Weihenstephaner restaurant which was pretty good apart from one disappointing pasta dish (why choose pasta in Berlin?!). On the second day we had a snack-bar breakfast and then walked through the snow in the Tiergarten park and onto the Jewish Museum. This is a fascinating museum of Jewish history and culture. The beautiful lady in the image below is 21 year old Albertine Heine, on her wedding day. In the evening we ate at the Zur Haxe Bavarian restaurant. It really is worth eating here; great food, charming decor and the happiest waitresses you’re ever likely to meet!
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So many books read recently
Quarantine by Jim Crace is an interesting read set two thousand years ago, about four travellers, including one called Jesus, who enter the desert to fast for forty days.
Ten Stories About Smoking by Stuart Evers is a fabulous collection of short stories. Very highly recommended.
Them by John Ronson is a wacky ride with a variety of extremists. There are some bizarre people about!
The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien may be my second attempt at this novel, and if so, is my second failed attempt to figure out what was going on. I give up!
No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker, What a find! It’s a terrific insight into the American criminal mind, based on the author’s violent past. Highly recommended. -
Zero Dark Thirty
Zero Dark Thirty – a terrific movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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Anthony Hill
When I was about 10 years old, my friend Anthony Hill taught me a simple card game. I often played the game with my brothers and sisters, but not knowing the actual name of the game, we simply called it Anthony Hill’s game. Fifty years later I still play the game and continue to use his name to refer to the game. Now, through this blog, Anthony Hill and his card game will live on.
The object of the game, which is best played with 2 or 3 players, is to be the first person to get rid of all one’s cards.
Deal the same number of cards (7-10 is about right), face down, to each player. Put the remaining cards in a pile, face down, and then turn over the top card, placing it next to the pile. Having decided who plays first (however you decide!) the first player must put a card of the same suit OR the same number as the the turned up card, placing it over this card. If the player is unable to play a card of the same suit or number, they must pick up the top card from the pile of face-down cards and add it to the other cards in their hand. Having played a card or picked up a card, play then moves to the next player, who must play a card of the same suit or number as the card at the top of the pile.
If the pile of face-down cards runs out, simply shuffle the exposed cards (except the top one), and place them face down to form a new pile.The first player to get rid of their cards is the winner!
If the players are able to cope with another rule (!), then the following makes the game more interesting.
When playing a card of the same suit, if the card being played is an ace, the player can change the suit of the card at the top of the pile to any suit. So, for example, if the card at the top of the pile is a diamond (for example) and a player plays the ace of diamonds, the player can change the suit to spades (for example) so that the next player has to play a spade or a card of the same number (ie another ace).(Note that if one ace is placed on top of another, the second ace can only change the suit if it’s the same suit as the suit changed to by the preceding ace, otherwise the suit of the ace on top becomes the current suit.)
Enjoy!
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