I haven’t blogged about food for a little while, so here’s a highly important update on what we’ve been eating. Last night’s risotto was made with fresh porcini mushrooms from the Saturday farmers’ market over by Jamie’s parents’ house. For a random quick little meal it turned out pretty nice.

Then this is pancakes this morning, [...]

It’s been raining. A lot.
This is today’s, a light day: an inch already!

All the residential areas under the foothills, that were so endangered during the fires in the summer, are now at risk again from mudslides and flooding. It’s an unfortunate double-whammy, especially since the fragility of the topsoil is mostly due to the fires [...]

We get countless flyers in the post, for all sorts of local offers and promotions. These are slowly wearing us down into submission, so we went to ‘Super King Market’ yesterday to see what they had to offer. It’s not in the nicest area of Pasadena, in fact it’s firmly in the ghetto. Some of [...]

Not a lot has happened since my last entry on New Year’s Eve (apart from the rest of that night itself, which involved bottles and bottles of champagne, pizza, more champagne, wine, dubious liqueurs, cigars, and burgers, in roughly that order).
I have seen some remarkable cars, though, and some superb sunsets, so I should share [...]

It’s been quite a year, to say the least. I’ve moved country, said goodbye to the old life and to family and friends, got married, and joined a new family and made new friends. (Didn’t like the old ones much anyway.) I’ve hunted for work, with a long seven-month spell of unemployment in between leaving [...]