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Is it that long since I last wrote? Well… hmmm. What’s happened? Let’s talk food, and start by rewinding to Tuesday. That was pancake day, despite us having the traditional pancake party at Mark’s house a good three weeks back. As tradition dictates, mum and Andrew came around and we all clustered around the gas pouring batter into the smallest frying pan, then marching in concert into the lounge to get sticky with lemon and sugar and syrup.

Regardless of perception, they’re not actually that bad. The frying pan is so non-stick it doesn’t need any fat, so it was only flour, water, egg and milk, which is making me wonder whether perhaps I ought to do some more tonight and experiment with mixing in the apples that need eating up. In small pieces, of course; not whole.

Skip ahead to Thursday for dinner with Kathryn and Ems. As with all the best-laid plans, we didn’t get to do any of the things we’d intended. We had wanted to go to the bar at the Kempinski court house. I’d read on the Time Out site that it was where Oscar Wilde had been sent down, and it still had all the cells in tack, serving drinks in urinals instead of ice buckets. Looking at its site, though, I see that it’s had all manner of famous people through its docks:

1835: Charles Dickens worked as a reporter there for the Morning Chronicle.
1847: Napoleon witness in fraud case between attempts to establish a second empire in France
1895: Oscar Wilde took the Marquess of Queensbury to court on a criminal libel charge.
1963: Christine Keeler in court over sex allegations which led to Profumo scandal becoming public.
1965: Thief in court for breaking into Lord Longford

If you liked that post, then try these...

Five star day on June 21st, 2001

A day indoors, mostly on March 2nd, 2003

More fun than toothache on May 26th, 2003

Freebies and fun on August 9th, 2001

Bulgaria on September 20th, 2006

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