I decided to do a small project for this year. The idea is to finish it this year, preferably in the first half. It's a Chatelaine de...

  After our tour of Warwick Castle, we had a real English tea.  The weather was perfect for it - chill and damp.  The china was in mode, ...

  We found fried pickles in England!  Granted, they're no where near as good as most in Texas, but they had them.  Andreas and I duck...

  Zizzi is a rather pretentious pizza place in Warwick.  Evidently, it's a chain.  The cider I had was below par, but local.  The ant...

I took this photo just after we arrived at Glengoyne in December.  Our visit there was wonderful, and we'll definitely go back.  I wo...

One of my colleagues went to Turkey for a wedding and brought back this trivet for me.  It's pretty!  Thank you, Oliver!  Took so lo...

  This restaurant was recommended by the lady we bought the mint cakes from.  It was Italian and crowded, but we found the food sort of b...

Andreas found this for me at the museum gift shop in Kendal after we bought loads of mint cakes.  I like the design a lot.

Saw these at the Gloucester roadside services and bought them just for the tins.  They're cute!

Just a couple of photos of Glasgow downtown on a dark and rainy night in December.

After wandering through Edinburgh, we decided on Asian food when we got back to Glasgow.  It was a good meal, and big!  Between the thre...

The Stirling Castle gift shop had these beautiful owls.  We decided to add to Andreas' collection.

  I showed you photos of the place where we at lunch in Edinburgh last week.  This is what we ate.  (Different cameras.)  Andreas got th...

We were looking for Greek food, but ended up at this place because of the smell of the bruschetta wafting into the street.  The bruschet...

I was very cold in Edinburgh, so Andreas bought me a cashmere scarf.  I love it - the colors are me, and it's so soft.  It also kept ...

After looking around the Christmas markets a bit, we realized we were hungry.  We had no clue what we wanted to eat, so we ducked into t...