Happy new year! It’s been an interesting ride – I had to look back when I started this lunch log that I’ve been fairly regular with entries since the start of 2013 – woo! The start of the year was a little slow to start with; surprisingly noodles weren’t more regularly appearing despite new year […]

This month has been cut rather short – both by law (bank holidays), enforced leave (office Christmas closure) and taking a ‘personal holiday’ (helping out with events) has left December to be one of the shortest (and most tiring) I’ve taken. Being ‘the season’ there’s lots of store cupboard items like reconstituted mushrooms/fungus, frozen food […]

Some interesting produce showing up at my local fruit and veg shop: small carrots in orange, white/yellow and purple. It’s hard to resist foods that are compact – it’s like they are bento-ready. In contrast, having a larger box may be problematic considering some of the tastiest foods I like involve deep frying. I’ve rediscovered […]

If any observers would have noticed, October is punctuated by beer event that has become a regular annual ritual. It’s been its lucky third time in existence, and once again ‘home’ is a conveniently located hotel (same one every year so far!) for most of that week. The first year I was rather organized and […]

What a month! ‘Nuff said, really. I could count myself grateful that in the end, things did turn out OK but I can’t deny that the whole experience hasn’t been an emotional roller coaster and all those cliches. As consolidation I can say it wasn’t so bad from the comfort of the other end of […]