R's rue

In October my nephew Jon and his girlfriend Holly get married. It’s the first family wedding since my own back in 2015. Jon is my brother’s son.  (For those that don’t know, my brother Andrew died of motor neurone disease almost ten years ago now) The wedding will be a relaxed affair in a country hotel over the border and so, I think my family is going to book a large shared suite at the hotel in order to stay over. It will be nice to have a few drinks.  I do love a nice wedding. The only knotty thing about the wedding is that I will need a suit. I am sure, non of you will be surprised to hear that I don’t own one. I did have a tuxedo however, a matching one I wore at my wedding. But since I have lost over two stone ( and counting) it no longer fits!  I dug it and my dress shirt out last week and took it to one of the hospice charity shops for recycling.  The man behind the counter was broad, like me..and he immediately took a personal interest in the ...

Last evening I visited our local Waitrose supermarket. They have just started stocking a new bakery product - namely vegan brioche buns by "Bosh!" There's our Ian on the right with his old schoolmate Henry on the left. It's the latest thing on the still magical journey that is "Bosh!". No doubt it will end one day - but not yet. Not by a long way. This very weekend they are one of the headline "acts" at a big vegan festival  near Newark. They'll be selling and signing their books before giving a talk on the main stage about plant-based living. Later they will be DJ-ing - spinning discs and bringing chosen beats and samples together as hundreds of people  dance to their music. Brioche bread is normally enriched with butter, eggs and milk but Ian and Henry have found a way of mimicking it without dairy or animal ingredients. For our evening meal tonight, we had homemade vegan burgers with lettuce,  tomato slices and vegan mayonnaise inside t...

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