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A Taste of my Life 2008 What are the dishes and food that you remember from your childhood? As the eldest of 7 children, with only 10 years between me and the youngest, I recall there always being a mad rush around mealtimes when we were younger. The main meals I remember are fried liver [...]

Mad Men

Mad Men Series 1 Just 3 episodes in and I’m really looking forward to the next instalment of this drama series. Set in an advertising world of New York in 1960, it centres on Don Draper, the creative director of the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency. Initially we see the facade of a suave, goodlooking, stylish [...]

Review of Bear Grylls: Born Survivor

Bear Grylls: Born Survivor, Sahara Episode This is the second series of the Bear Grylls survival guide but the Sahara, Part 2 was the first episode I’ve managed to catch. It began with Bear being dropped from a low flying helicopter in the desert, continued with his meeting a Berber tribe and many tips of [...]

Review of Celebrity Apprentice USA

Celebrity Apprentice USA We’re now halfway through this series and I’m really enjoying it. I’m a fan of the normal Apprentice series, both the American version with Donald Trump and the British version with Sir Alan Sugar. This is the seventh series of the US version and the contestants are all celebrities. To be honest, [...]

Review of Great British Menu – Welsh Week

Great British Menu – Series 3 Wales Regional Heat I confess I had been disappointed with the first regional final last week of this TV series. None of the dishes greatly appealed to me and some in fact did the opposite. But this week its the turn of Angela Hartnett and Stephen Terry to compete in the four course [...]

Does anyone like cauliflower?

It is in my humble opinion a gawdawful vegetable. Euugh. photo credit: bunnicula Was watching the second episode of The Great British Menu last night and neither of the fish courses did anything for me, especially this one as at the addition of cauliflower I just had to turn off.

Review of Damages Series 1

Damages Series 1 Have recently started watching this legal thriller series which is showing on Monday nights on BBC1. Have been well impressed so far. It began with a bloodstained woman running panicked out of an apartment building and then returns to 6 months previous to this, where we meet the same woman beginning her career [...]

Review of Guerrilla Gourmet, Series 1 Episode 3, RTE

Guerrilla Gourmet, Series 1 Episode 3, RTE “After a not so good start to this series, I enjoyed this episode as it was less gimmicky, more food and chef focussed.“   The first two episodes of this series I have to admit bugged me a bit. Kevin Dundon and Denis Cotter are both chefs who [...]

Review of Desperate Housewives, Series 4

Desperate Housewives, Series 4 “Entertaining so far with new character who previously lived on Wisteria Lane and has a secret.“   Just two episodes in of the new season of Desperate Housewives on RTE2 and I’m enjoying it again. I felt the last series meandered a smidge towards the end and lost its momentum but [...]

Review of Oz and James’ Big Wine Adventure TV series

Oz and James’ Big Wine Adventure TV series “Informative and highly entertaining TV series about Californian wine. Excellent.“   I’ve just finished watching another episode of this great series. It follows on from last year’s foray into France for Oz and James. James, being a wine novice and usual presenter of BBC’s Top Gear and [...]

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