By Alice | Published:
August 8, 2011
Coincidentally I was back in the Ashmolean for the second time this weekend to see Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s which contains recent acquisitions of posters, prints, and so on. It’s in a small space tucked away (gallery 29) but well worth checking out if you are passing.
Edamame lunch. They are shutting for their usual summer break soon. Very tasty.
Cup of tea in the pub. Red wine later ;)
Chance to play some music.
Took my personal stuff home from work. Surprising how much there was! I think because I’m always cycling back and forth the bigger less transportable stuff built up under my desk, things like cake tins and my bicycle pump :)
By Alice | Published:
August 1, 2011
For my sister’s last birthday (which we celebrated back in March) I said as her gift I’d take her out for a meal somewhere fancy for a good ol’ sisters knees-up, so a few weeks back we cashed-in this promise and went to the Bath Priory. Is there anything more decadent than a really long lunch in good company? It was lovely, the food was really great and the surroundings perfect, really beautiful gardens. It would be a brilliant place to celebrate something like a wedding anniversary. To get there you can get the train into Bath, walk up the hill to the hotel (about half an hour) and then after your 3 hour+ meal toddle down the hill through Victoria Park passing beneath the Royal Crescent. It’s not cheap, especially if you have cocktails and a glass of wine as we did, but for the standard of food and the occasion of it all beginning at £32 for a three course lunch is really not bad and you get these little extras throughout the meal. Recommended.
By Alice | Published:
June 13, 2011
A few Fridays ago I jumped on a train to go and see my sister in Bristol. I had tickets for us to see the band Low, I haven’t included pictures of the show below but it was a great.
Before the show we went for a bit of high living and had dinner at Cafe Maitreya which is an organic vegetarian restaurant that has been rated the top place in the UK by the Vegetarian Society. The food was very good, interesting too, and I think the cost was reasonable for the standard of food. The above is my starter and dessert, I forgot to take a picture of the main as was too busy chatting/eating.
My sister and her friends are renting a house from a lady who spends half the year in somewhere like India, so the house is packed with interesting artifacts. I think it could be on The Selby for sure…
A talented fellow made this for my sister, tiny origami!
Breakfast the next day.
Then we went out around my sister’s neighbourhood.
We stopped to look at the Stokes Croft dog show, such a variety of cute dogs, the awards were things like ‘happiest dog’.
This is the boarded window of a Tesco that the local community really objects to.
By Alice | Published:
March 21, 2011
On Sunday we paid a visit to the Tetote Japanese bakery to try their bread that folks have been telling me about and we stocked up on a few things to share. It’s located in Pacific Plaza which opened last year in a unit of a retail park in Wembley, London. Way way back there was the Yaohan Plaza which was a large South-East Asian shopping centre off in the outskirts of London, this then became Oriental City, and then when that closed some of the same people opened Pacific Plaza.
We weren’t impressed with the general Pacific Plaza food court, I don’t think we would bother with it again, and the majority of the Plaza was closed but the Tetote bakery is worth a detour if you are out that way (the Brent Cross Ikea and Wembley Stadium are only a few minutes away). It’s really rare to find this particular style of Japanese baked goods over here so it was pretty exciting to see them! If I was actually in Japan I probably wouldn’t hardly ever eat things like Melon Pan (the white one above) very often but here it was pretty exciting :) Made me think of the bakeries in Hong Kong too.
By Alice | Published:
March 16, 2011
When bad things happen in the world it reminds you to hold your loved ones close. I had a chance to do that right away as it was the family celebration for my sister’s birthday. Everyone went over to my father’s house to have a meal and catch up.
This egg with cress was my mother’s centrepiece contribution :)
For once we were not making the food instead my father had asked Momo-san from his farmers market who has a stall of Japanese food to deliver food. It was very delicious.
My family do good knees-ups.
Happy birthday to Rose.
We talked a lot about Japan, it is very much in our thoughts.
