The Anonymous Widower

My Sunday Lunch

This picture may say I seem to be on the breadline.

My Sunday Lunch

My Sunday Lunch

However, I’m just returning to one of the traditions that C and I adhered to in the early years of our marriage. We tended to get up late, feed the kids, read the Sunday papers and then have bacon and egg and probably some extras like tomatoes, beans and perhaps mushrooms.

Why and when we gave it up, I do not know!

I only did it this time, as I wanted something simple to do, whilst listening to the Australians losing the cricket.

July 21, 2013 Posted by | Food, Sport | , | Leave a comment

The Dangers Of Eating Pies

As a coeliac, I don’t eat pies unless they have a potato topping, rather than a pastry one. But this story, should be a warning to us all.

Aystralia seems to be going rather soft these days, what with the rugby and now the cricket.

July 20, 2013 Posted by | Food, Sport, World | , , | 1 Comment

Will It Be Kangaroo Or Lamb Pie Tonight?

With Australia and New Zealand playing today in the  cricket, the question has to be asked!

With Australia at two for twelve, it looks like it’s veering t0wards kangaroo.

But because I have one in the fridge, it will actually be shepherd’s made from beef.

June 12, 2013 Posted by | Food, Sport | , , | Leave a comment

How To Celebrate Australian Defeat By England

Last night, I made a couple of my shepherd’s pies.

Last Night's Shepherd's Pie

Last Night’s Shepherd’s Pie

One was for last night and the other was to be saved for later.  Although, as I have had a slight problem with the fridge, I suspect it’ll go in the freezer. I dropped a knife yesterday and it slid under the fridge.  In getting it out of its hole under the work-top, I must have pulled the cable out, so of course it stopped working. As all my milk went solid, I’m not in the best mood today, having had to drink black tea.

I had a thought yesterday, as I was making the pies.  Would one work with kangaroo mince, to celebrate a victory over the old enemy?

My rudimentary cooking skills say it would and from time in Australia, I know that kangaroos are good eating.  So I used that great cooking utensil, Google, to look for a supplier.

The first I found was Macken Brothers in Chiswick. They have a selection of exotic meats and confirmed they can do kangaroo mince.

I also searched further and found Kezie Foods in Scotland, which has a wide selection of kangaroo meat. According to that page, kangaroo meat is very good for your heart.

I’ll definitely cook something in the next month or so.

June 11, 2013 Posted by | Food, Sport | , , | Leave a comment

My Poor Australian Physio

I’m going to see him this afternoon.  I suspect he’ll get a lot of teasing after the performances of Australia in the cricket and the rugby at the weekend.

I doubt I’ll be the first to lay it on thick!

After all they did celebrate at the pub, by spit roasting a kangaroo!

June 10, 2013 Posted by | Sport | , , | 3 Comments

Cricket At The Olympic Stadium

It was reported on the BBC London News last night, that Essex County Cricket Club are negotiating to play their Twenty20 games at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford in East London.

This is a brilliant idea, as if they get the marketing and ticketing right, I’m sure that they’ll get a whole load of new people to go to the cricket.

Remember, as we saw in New Zealand recently, you can play the Twenty20 version of the game in a rugby or football stadium with a drop-in wicket.

Imagine too, England against Australia at Twenty20 with 70,000 supporters looking on. Now that will be some game!

It will happen, if for no other reason, there is no other way in the UK, to get that number of people to one of the greatest and longest rivalries in world sport.

April 6, 2013 Posted by | Sport | , , , | Leave a comment

Pyongyang Without The Dystopia

This quote comes from this article on the BBC web site about Canberra.

When C and I flew round Australia some years ago, we didn’t go to the city.  I seem to remember some Aussie wag saying there’s nothing to see that would interest a tourist.

March 9, 2013 Posted by | Transport/Travel | | 2 Comments

Who’d Have Thought It?

This article, entitled “Australia’s new non-drinking puritans” caught my eye on the BBC web site!

Who’d have thought it?

February 28, 2013 Posted by | Food | , | Leave a comment

Fox Attacks Nanny’s Ugg Boots

This story from the Standard shows how confused the urban fox is these days.

Remember that foxes are not native to Australia, although they have been introduced, and I actually saw one in the middle of nowhere at Goondiwindi.

So the boots being Australian didn’t know how to protect themselves and give the poor animal a good kicking.

It’s about time we got real about foxes and realised that they are dangerous vermin.

Basil Brush has a lot to answer for!

 

January 23, 2013 Posted by | News | , , | 2 Comments

Tasmania

We all seem to forget about Tasmania.

I always remember my mother telling a tale about how at Dame Alice Owen’s School, a teacher came into the lesson, one morning and said she wanted a map of the world in five minutes.  When they’d all finished, the teacher, then asked who had put in Tasmania. I’m not sure whether my mother ever said, if she had.

I never really thought much about the State and in fact, it was the place least on the list of places I was likely to visit. After all it was so far away.

But one of my regrets in life, is when I flew round Australia with C, in a Piper Arrow, was that we didn’t do it properly and visit everywhere we could.  But C was worried, that a long holiday might result in other members of her chambers, stealing all her work.  If there is another profession, more paranoid than barristers, I haven’t found it.

But now Tasmania is going farther than anywhere else with a smoking ban for anybody born after 2000. It’s here in the Telegraph.

One of these days, I might get to Tasmania, but it would be a great surprise if I did, as there are so many places to explore without a long boring flight. Unless of course, I go by boat.  Whoever heard of ship lag anyway!

January 22, 2013 Posted by | News, Transport/Travel | , , | 2 Comments

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