Sunday, May 26, 2013 at 07:35PM 
We had a sort of plan to go to the seaside today. Then we figured that lots of other folks would have that plan too. And so we went for a walk around the waterfont at Hull. We went past the deep and round the old town, had a fantastic Beef and Stilton sandwich at McCoy’s and then staggered home to play some silly Table Tennis in the garden.
Monday, April 8, 2013 at 07:18PM 
It has come to my attention that I’ve made a terrible error. I’ve been writing posts extoling the virtues of Percy Pig sweets, (which I’ve been buying from Sugar Sugar Sweets – three for two on Wednesday) when it turns out that these are really Porky Pig sweets. The real Percy Pig is a trademark of Marks and Spencer as you can see above. I found this out when I bought a pig for number one wife for easter. The chocolate tastes great, but we are having a real problem eating Percy, shorts and all as we don’t like saying things like “I’ll have his leg, looks delicious…”.
We’ve solved this by convincing ourselves that this is actually a model of Percy, who is alive and well and living happily in a sty in Bournemouth. Oh yes he is.
food Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 10:40PM 
The Hope and Anchor at Blacktoft is a great place to go for a meal by the river. If you are really lucky you might get a sky like this in between courses. And a dirty great boat going past the window (which I failed to rush out and take a picture of).
Just make sure that you set your SatNav up with care. My score so far is “Attempts to find the place: 2. Went straight there: 0”.
It is also a great place to go if you like Laurel and Hardy. Go along and find out what I mean. And have the roast beef Sunday Lunch. Lovely.
This is another view, using the Painterly 2 filter from PhotoMatix.
food, restaurant Friday, December 18, 2009 at 08:27PM 
We sent off our our Imagine Cup Software Development competition entries today. Last day of the submissions, just before the deadline. Well, this is a student competition…. We haven’t sent in any Game Development entries yet, mainly because the deadline isn’t until next year.
We had a meeting earlier this week to finalise the entries and get things sorted. As a motivational aid I brought along a tin of Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls. There are a fantastic mint powered confection that have a great flavour and a wonderful inconsistency. Some are just sweet, some have just a hint of mint and some have loads. Very nice, and you can now get them at local stores (previously we used to go to Whitby to buy them). We even noticed last week in London that they had them in Harvey Nichols food hall. Very posh.
Anyhoo, I’m not sure if we are going to make the UK finals again this year (the list of finalists comes out early next year) but you never know.
Imagine Cup, food Monday, August 21, 2006 at 10:57PM Had a wedding anniversary today. Twenty four years of wedded bliss(tm). I bought my wife a romantic novel. She bought me a copy of the ACME Catalogue. We know each other pretty well by now.
As part of the celebrations we went out for a meal. We went to a place in Cottingham called WokSoEver. You can see a video of it here. As the name implies, it is chinese, and they use a wok for cooking. The first thing we noticed when we walked through the door was the large proportion of chinese guests chowing down. We reckoned that this, and the fact that the place was pretty busy on a Monday night, was a good omen.
And so it turned out. The food was wonderful. We had the set banquet for two (there was actually enough for three) and everything was great. I always have difficulty putting names to any kind of dish more complicated than burger and chips, so I've no idea what some of the stuff was called. But the ribs were great, the chicken things on sticks were great and the prawn toast was the best I've ever tasted.
The service was attentive and polite, the food was presented with style, and if you get there before half past seven they are presently doing a special deal which gets you a wonderful meal for less than ten quid a head.
If you live in this area and you like chinese food (or even if you don't) you should go there. Great place for students to take mum and dad when they visit. They have a lunch time menu too. And they'e won awards.
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