I am a self-confessed ‘foodie’! I cannot deny it, all my friends know it to be true … especially my Facebook friends who are often treated to photographs of meals that I have enjoyed in various parts of the world. According to Wikipedia (that font of all human knowledge) ‘a foodie is a person who […]

I grew up in the late 1940s/early 1950s. When I was a child we didn’t have things like a car, central heating, a telephone, a television … and all the other things my grandchildren take for granted today. We did have ‘steam radio’ however, and it was constantly on when we were at home. I […]