Tag Archives: food

Coronavirus Diary 81: Visiting London’s oldest Beigel Shop

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Stephen Liddell

For many if not most people, life is well on the way to being back to normal, in deed from what I can tell many peoples lives were barely impacted at all aside for a few weeks. For myself and … Continue reading →

Posted in Heritage, Life, London, Travel | Tagged Bagel, Beigel, Brick Lane, Coronavirus Diary, East End, ExcludedUK, ExcludedUnity, food, Jewish | 5 Comments

Pineapples – From Regal luxury to 70’s chintz!

Posted on August 6, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

Do you like Pineapples? I don’t know about you but I don’t really like them at all. They burn my tongue which is as good a reason as any not to like a food but there was a time when … Continue reading →

Posted in Heritage, history, Life, Popular Culture | Tagged food, Gardening, King Charles II, Pineapple, royalty, Status Symbol | 2 Comments

Coronavirus Diary 48 – A bit of this, a bit of that.

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

I’m continuing my self-isolation which is probably a good thing as typically for my luck, the streets and neighbouring villages around where I live have the highest Covid mortality rate in the whole-country per head of population. With the electrician … Continue reading →

Posted in Life | Tagged Coronavirus, Coronavirus Diary, Diary, food, garden, Life, ruins, WW2 | 1 Comment

Coronavirus Diary 21 – Food parcels & emergency manouvres!

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

It’s 10 weeks now since I last earned a penny and couldn’t work due to the tube train incident which apart from the very odd trip out has been when my social isolation began in earnest. I’ve been in receipt … Continue reading →

Posted in Life | Tagged Coronavirus, Coronavirus Diary, Corvid19, Diary, food, food parcel | 3 Comments

Arise Sir Loin Steak

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

The menu for the 1617 banquet that gave birth to the legend that King James I invented sirloin steak after knighting a joint of beef has gone up for auction. Legend has it that when James I dined at Hoghton … Continue reading →

Posted in Heritage, history, Life, News | Tagged Arise Sir Loin, food, James I, Sir Henry Hoghton, Sirlon Steak | 3 Comments

Coronavirus Diary 2 – Goodbyes but no good grub

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

Yesterday I went out to see a friend. My new house is a total dump. An absolute pig-sty as we say in the U.K. No cleaning/bathing facilities, no toilet, damp in the floors electric wires everywhere and a near 200 … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny & Humour, Life | Tagged Coronavirus, Coronavirus Diary, CoronavirusUK, food, Friends, Hoarding, Panic Buying, Self Quarantine, Social Isolation, supermarkets | 5 Comments

The secret green huts of London

Posted on March 4, 2020 by Stephen Liddell

They are an icon of London; not as famous as those famous red symbols such a telephone boxes, post boxes, double decker buses or soldiers on guard and they are certainly less common than the iconic London black taxis but … Continue reading →

Posted in Heritage, history, Life, London, Travel | Tagged Black Taxi, Bloomsbury, food, London, London Taxi | 3 Comments

The Ice Cream Index of Happiness

Posted on July 22, 2019 by Stephen Liddell

It turns out it really is the simple things in life that do the most to uplift you’re feelings, at least if you’re British and it’s summer time. Chocolate and donating to charity give British people the most happiness per … Continue reading →

Posted in Life, News, Popular Culture | Tagged food, Happiness, Happy, Ice Cream Index of Happiness, Summer, Surveys, Things that makes us happy | 9 Comments

A video of the re-opened Borough Market

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Stephen Liddell

Borough Market has long been one of my favourite parts of London and so aside from the more obvious issues following the recent attack there and the adjoining London Bridge, I have been waiting to get back inside both for … Continue reading →

Posted in Cool Britannia, Life, London, News, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours | Tagged Borough Market, food, London, London Bridge, Markets, Neals Yard, Southwark, Terrorism, Travel, Video | 6 Comments

Ye Olde Fighting Cock – The Oldest Pub in Britain?

Posted on May 18, 2017 by Stephen Liddell

This time last week I was giving a lovely guided tour to a charming couple to the old Roman city of St Albans which as it happens is just 5 miles from my house and an hour out of central … Continue reading →