Cooking With Richard

from Clara

Our crazy driving holiday around Scotland is now over. I drove 1,104 miles. Here are some photos:

Troooon

Booooat

♫♬listen to the song ♪♫♬

Arran and Lamlash

Home of the worst pub on Arran …

Lunch

Castles and shika

Shikatetsu …

The Lamb and Whisky

The Array Whisky distillery, home of some rather pleasant spirits.

Loch

Maggie the moggie

It’s my bro’s moggie:

CLICK!

… sounds like a dodgy pub, and currently it’s a googlewhack. And somehow it reminds me of the sign by the Cat and Lion pub in Stretton which I used to drive past every day on my way to work at Daresbury Laboratory. The sign showed a lion “lying down” with a lamb, reminiscent of the Tate and Lyle logo.

I digress.

On Thursday we had roast shoulder of lamb which was most excellent.

Today this lovely moggy turned up in our back garden. Actually he was “lying down” with the little sparrows, but we’ll forgive him that because it’s part of his nature:

One day I’ll be allowed to own a cat. It’s past time.

Tring has a small but rather wonderful Natural History Museum. Actually it is more properly known as the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum, which is now managed by the Natural History Museum in London. The collection is marvellously Victorian — 4000 stuffed animals, a spectacle rather than an education.

JBS Haldane’s seminal essay: On being the right size.

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