Buildings in Belfast are crumbling, homelessness is out of control, and “austerity” is often given as the reason why nothing ever gets done. So why, and how, is the council spending £2 million on the Irish language? My latest for @TheCriticMag: https://t.co/VCkBdrpkNC

Northern Ireland in the evening light is the most beautiful place on Earth

There are few things better than the sound of hounds in the English countryside

Having a little pizza

Margo is very glad it’s Friday

Dinner, seven years ago tonight

England our land

There are few things more joyous than a colourful country cottage

A couple of dessert wines which I acquired yesterday. Chateau Coutet, from 1975 and 1984. The chateau has been one of the most highly regarded dessert wine producers in Bordeaux since at least the mid-19th century. I am looking forward to cracking these open.

If you like recipes like this, I have written a cookbook! It’s called ‘Sustenance’ and you can get it on Amazon. Or you can get an ebook copy for very inexpensively here, for a short time: https://t.co/p0uaGNqmdT

Tonight’s dinner is a confit duck potato gratin, with dijon mustard, shallots, white wine, and topped with grana padano

This is what the average house in the UK looked like before 1997 when Tony Blair became Prime Minister

People really saw this one day and decided to invent spreadsheets

Having a little lunchtime coffee

The Church of England just appointed a pro-abortion Archbishop of Canterbury, by the way. You can’t selectively grieve for some unborn children, and not for others.

Men want one thing and it’s a misty countryside garden with lots of outbuildings

Little Margo is being good tonight

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England our land

Focaccia bread garden

Northern Ireland is a truly magical place