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A warm flat, an effusive welcome and Crimbo was off to a good start.  The local high street had everything you could think of and more: charity shops with stuff worth buying, a great Italian cafe, Mark’s, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and pubs with decent ale. As I have only fairly recent…

I have just done a bit of Sainsbury’s shopping and popped over the road to Sopratutto for coffee and canole. Fresh canole in four flavours: pistachio,coffee,Nutella and something else. Crisp pastry with a delicious filling. A proper cappuccino and wi-fi…what more does a man about town need?

Have a read or listen to this poem called from Immram by Paul Muldoon…it’s great!

After driving around in a taxi for over an hour and a half, our taxi driver approached a police officer to assist in the search for our son, the miscreant. So it was that at about 5am he returned to the family home and started to give off about how…

It’s 23:00 on a school night and I’m searching for the miscreant in the city centre bars.  I thought optimistically that he would be in his usual haunts down town. No such luck. Not answering his mobile, not replying to text messages…same old bollocks.

Cosmopolitan Belfast has many restaurants and cafes offering anything from the delights of Katmandu to the haute cuisine of a basement restaurant called la Bastille. Cheap food is rarely delicious, but whilst waiting for a bus I popped into Arabesque, opposite one of Belfast’s best bars, Lavery’s. For £3 I…

Delia’s recipe for mince pies did not include shop bought pastry, but I don’t think she’d mind too much.