Magnon's Meanderings

For decades I've used plain black rubbish bags; nothing wrong with them, but they were very dull. Those have now been replaced by a tota...

What do you get for your money, when you buy your weekly Sunday Times? Pages 2 and 3: Two full page adverts for Rolex watches. Page 8: Full ...

I had literally just returned from evening Dog-Walking when this photo arrived on my WhatsApp page with a 'ping'. It was blowing a s...

About 20 years ago, just before Christmas, I bought a large round box of Belgian Chocolates from Thornton's (a reasonably up-market UK C...

I suppose I must now accept that I'm growing 'old'; I'm even beginning to resemble photographs of my Great Grandfather. I ha...

Elizabeth David tells me that Patrick Leigh Fermor's version of Moussaka was/is the world's best. I have seen film of his Greek cook...

My son, Kimbo, is not known for 'cake making', but armed with his Mary Berry cake-making bible, he threw himself into the mixing bow...