Sugar and spice
31st March 2024 With the fine weather continuing, Stephen came home for lunch on Monday to find the door stop wedging open the front...
Many a mickle
24th March 2024 Another week of bits and pieces but nothing earthshattering, so I will have to rely once again on your good natures to...
Fit for a king
17th March 2024 While the weather deciding to turn sunny on Tuesday, and remain so for most of the rest of the week, was nice to see, it...
Cut to the chase
10th March 2024 It was again left to the weather to give the first part of the week some interest, and it more than did its best to...
Into every life...
3rd March 2024 Whether it was the effect of judicial rationing of the goodies Stephen brought back from Bologna or that there was nothing...
Keep calm...
25th February 2024 With Stephen in Milan for most of the week, things at LCDDB were more or less in stasis. Just as well, then, that I...
Have a break...
18th February 2024 Fittingly enough for the week of Shrove Tuesday (or Martedì Grasso as some prefer), Stephen’s time for returning to...
See food
11th February 2024 Stephen’s Monday proved just as busy as his previous Friday had been. Not only was he late home for a curtailed lunch...
A piece of cake... or two
4th February 2024 The most you can say about the past week is that it has been a bit on the expensive side, and not in a good way (if...
Brushing up
28th January 2024 With my recuperation from the debilitating attack of flu, or whatever it was, very nigh complete, I have to face a...
