So today it was off to the Foodie Festival for some fine food – and meeting up with Nicci Kitchin before seeing brother Tom doing a cooking demo. Then off to see Pippa Evans followed by John Bishop at the Pleasance.

Then to top it all it was a fine bag if chip on the way home from the bus stop

Here’s Lorraine Souffle.

(sorry for chopping your head off Lorraine!)

Didn’t have a clue what to expect – had heard of it but somehow avoided knowing the story until last night. Was tired after a long week at work and then a decent meal at B’est but the action kept us awake – including live gunshots!

That was our valentines treat to ourselves so going to catch up on some Lost this evening.

Looking forward to a few nights away this week – for birthday and business reasons

Ended up in a wee place called Pani Solinska that is a Polish (can’t you guess?) restaurant. Freshly prepared food and friendly service topped us up just as energies were flagging.

Worth dropping in if you are in need of a bit of grub – or even a Polish beer!

Friday night it was 2 or 3 chums for lots of home made stuff from masterchef Lorraine, including meat and veggie burgers, salsa, hummous, salad, and chutney.

Then Satuday is was off to Craigs for a few hours before before running away to babysitting duties. Some great meat products there courtesy of Angus and expertly cooked by the birthday boy himself.

The Sunday we had some veggie burgers and some burgers that got defrosted on Friday but not cooked to use up so out with the Barbie again!

Veg for the rest of the week methinks as I’ve had my fill of meat!

As if you weren’t aware dear reader, that I have been doing the website for Mark Beaumont and his attempt to smash the World Record for cycling round the world.

So off to Paris Lorraine and I headed to meat up with Mark at the launch on Sunday morning. Lots of bits and pieces needed done before he left so some of the time was spend hammering away on various laptops before the Sunday a.m. deadline.

He got off fine though – a few technical issues still getting ironed out on route but he’s off and cycling which is the important bit.

We did get to enjoy some great meals and chat with the team in Paris and some site-seeing and fantastic food/wine/coffee in various places throughout Paris too.

Us and the family

Please sponsor Mark’s charities through his website if you get the chance, or at least follow his trip.

I’ll get some pictures here and in the pedalling around gallery ASAP. (I probably always say that and never get round to it…)

Bruce

Food in Pizza Express before was okay along with a beer in Bannermans afterwards.

Few beers afterwards in (or rather, sitting outside) the human be-in. Most enjoyable.