Chez Spud

Despite the combined efforts of a vomiting bug, a queried broken leg and the combined forces of National Express rail and my inability to keep hold of vital travel documents for 5 minutes….I made it to London yesterday to meet with seasoned Blog Campers Bee and Blanca. Getting home again was a whole other story [...]

Thanks to The Domestic Sensualists via Julochka via Julochka’s grandmother for the gift of Banana Bread. And a special big thanks to Julochka’s daughter, Sabin, for her inspired addition of vast chunks of chocolate to the recipe. Such insight at the tender age of 9! Banana and chocolate go together like, er, banana and chocolate. [...]

I love tea. It’s a love affair that’s evolved over time and has involved occasional flirtations with coffee but me and tea are now going steady. I have standards and these are they: builder’s tea (strong as you like and ideally one tea bag to a cup, then pressed against the side for extra za-za-zooooom), [...]

Cheers! Gin & Tonic (Hendricks of course) at Julochka’s place to celebrate the start of Blog Camp 3.0.
End of day one…I got up at 4am…left the house at a less than ideal 4.45am…foggy (oh crap) so got to the airport at 5.50am…arrived at check-in at 6.13am (2 minutes before it closed)….resuscitated myself after briefly passing [...]

Hello [Virtual] Campers! I present A Tale of Four Breakfasts…but which is the odd one out?
Is it the delicious homemade scones knocked up in a jiffy by Miss Buckle? Or the delicious pastries (Danish, of course) which Julockha’s husband kindly went out and bought for us, the tip-top Blog Camp Jam made by the fragrant [...]

It’s all about the little things…that’s the conclusion Jelica (which, by the way, is pronounced Yel-IT-sa) and I came to whilst discussing how to differentiate one European city from another when, in certain ways, so many seem similar. Same shops, same brands, same coffee chains, same rather grotty main train station situated in the seedy [...]

HELP STOP AM STUCK IN JULOCHKA’S BLUE ROOM STOP SEND HELP STOP CAN’T GET OUT STOP HELP STOP REPEAT HELP STOP

Oh look! Blog Campers in Reno, hellooooo

Mmmm, Julochka made gin cocktails, it’s raining, we’re cosied in the Blue Room, the Blog Camp blend from The Fragrant Muse is burning, the ‘loungey’ music is playing…we’ve done our jump shot….all is well in Blog Camp 2.0 world…
We made clay creatures…

We learnt how to say ‘Spitting on the floor is forbidden’ in Danish…

These guys [...]

I’ve been absent. Life has been giving me a run for my money and briefly bankrupted me. I was 8 hours late for Blog Camp due to having hopelessly not packed in time. No matter…I am now famously late for Blog Camp. I might have to host the next one myself to stop me being [...]

Final thoughts on Blog Camp before I parcel up the rest of the memories for myself and pop them in to an easily accessible corner of my mind.
Whilst driving home it suddenly struck me that I had been the only Brit attending the BBC (Brit Blog Camp); Kristina is Swedish and lives in Sweden, Blanca [...]