You don’t really need me to tell you that 2020 has been quite a year. Although restrictions have been generally eased in the UK, for months we shut ourselves away from our families and friends in an attempt to protect ourselves and each other from a virus that has wreaked havoc across the world, on a scale that is unprecedented in modern times.
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A reminder to look for beauty in darker times
Over five years ago, I started my blog to write about the centenary of the First World War, and paired each post on a commemorative event with a traditional war-time inspired recipe.
Over 100 years on from the War, the world is engaged in a different kind of conflict. Coronavirus has swept the globe, leaving a trail of devastation in its path in the form of many thousands of grieving families.
It’s an enemy we cannot see and which we have limited weapons to fight against. It doesn’t discriminate against old or young, men or women, rich or poor, those in power or ordinary people.
But it is a war that has required us to fight together rather than with each other. These are indeed unprecedented times.
Happy New Year. New year, new recipe. Cauliflower mac and cheese. It’s a combination of two great meals to make an even greater meal. And it’s topped with crispy prosciutto ham. Continue reading
“Come into the garden and forget the war”
Did you know there’s a Garden Museum right in the middle of London? Neither did I.
How interesting, you might think. But this particular place has a few stories to tell. Continue reading
I spent yesterday’s Saturday morning wandering around St James’ Park. I may have been a bit confused in my search for the new Flanders Fields 1914-1918 memorial garden but it didn’t stop me admiring the autumnal changes the new season has brought to the park since my last visit. Continue reading
“When you go home, tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow, we gave our today.”
My short blogging experience has seen me traipsing all around London in an attempt to document the major commemorative events dedicated to the centenary of the First World War.
But on this Remembrance Sunday I decided to remember the losses of other families by spending the day with my own in Essex. Continue reading
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I took one dreary October afternoon off this week to pop around the corner from the office to the British Museum, which is taking a bold and unique stance in recognising the centenary of the First World War. Continue reading
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After two crazy weeks away I’m back again with another British inspired classic. Continue reading
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Being that this blog is a nod to the huge milestone that is the centenary of the First World War, this week it only seemed fitting that I raised a glass at the pub to my own (considerably smaller) milestone – my 10th post here. But this wasn’t just any pub…
This is the Dolphin Tavern in Holborn, central London – an ordinary pub with an extraordinary history. Continue reading
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This week I went back to a familiar place in London and saw something a bit new to me.
Familiar because I used to work in Westminster and would see this view every day. New because I went to St James’s Park for the first time. Continue reading
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