Hampton Court Palace
One of the perks of my wife being a teacher is that she sometimes gets free passes to visit the places that she’s going to take her girls to as a pre-trip investigation. A few years ago we had a jolly to Warwick Castle and most recently she got free tickets to go to Hampton…
Trip to Oxford-Pho
So… Following on from my wonderful lunch in Oxford last weekend; our day disappeared so quickly that we ended up eating out for dinner as well. Not the original plan but sign of the far and away improved eating out flexibility I was once so incapable of! We looked around for other places to eat…
Trip to Oxford-Mowgli
Phew! What a weekend! At least Piglet wasn’t poorly, it was nice and warm and we had a nice relaxing Sunday planned to make up for Saturday. Oh, wait… It’s been planned for a while but on Saturday we went back to Oxford for a bit of sightseeing, shopping and to visit family. In a…
Vegan Magnums
Shut. The. Front. Door! Magnum, as in ‘The ice-cream you used to have on holiday” Magnum, have started doing a vegan range. And what’s more – they don’t contain soya. I think I might need to sit down… I think it shows a real turning point in allergy/dietary acceptance when a big player launches…
Coffee Culture in Guildford
So we found ourselves in Guildford at the weekend. A little bit out of our way but we’ve been having trouble getting Piglet’s hair cut. It’s been getting longer and longer to the point that it literally loops out and then straight back into his eyes. He’s even learnt the phrase “my hair’s in my…
Booja-booja Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles
Prepare yourself. This post is unashamedly sycophantic in its praise of this product. I LOVE Booja-booja Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles. They. Are. Delicious! I first stumbled across Booja-booja as a maker of dairy free ice-cream by chance in the frozen aisle of Waitrose. They make a selection of cashew nut blended ice creams without milk or…
Surprisingly Suitable – 21st Sept 2018
I thought I’d pull together a list of things that we can eat (i.e. dairy and soya free) that you might not have known were suitable. Effectively edible food hiding in plain sight! (I should point out that such is the nature of mine and Piglet’s allergies, we don’t usually have to avoid food that…
Zizzi and the entire dairy-free menu
Sunday was a trip into the big smoke to see some university friends we hadn’t seen for far too long. To be fair, most people fall into the category of ‘haven’t seen them for too long’; I think it’s just a bi-product of being two working parents of a two-year old child. Well, that and…
Foggs in Windsor
There aren’t many non-big-chain coffee shops in Windsor. It’s crying out for something like the Boston Tea Party we had in Bath and Bristol, or Brew and Brownie as we recently found in York. I can’t help thinking that if someone was to tap into the barista-quality coffee market here; there’d be queues round the…
Dairy Free Milks
There are a lot of dairy-free alternative milks out there. I can honestly say I’ve tried most of them. To anyone hoping they’re going to taste like cow’s milk, they’re going to be bitterly disappointed. Having experimented with many of them, we’ve settled on Cashew Milk (it fits my tendency to only drink unnecessarily obnoxious…
Ah, Pizza Express, my comfort blanket of a restaurant!
Oh I do love P.E. No, not Physical Education. I don’t think it will take many of you by surprise to hear that I was not a physical Adonis of a school child. I was the kind of kid that got friction burns from playing rugby! I most certainly didn’t look forward to going out…
Longleat Adventure and Safari Park
Piglet was treated to an extended family day out today: A trip to Longleat Adventure and Safari Park with his parents and my dad and step-mum. Despite it only being 15 minutes from their house (and considering I lived there for a while after Uni) it seems funny that I’ve never been before and didn’t…
Tossed, not shaken or stirred
A quick review on the road: Travelling back from the stag do I stopped at Oxford Services for some lunch (and, more importantly, a coffee!). Service stations are often difficult; fast food, with an emphasis on fast can lead to poor service and difficulties in requesting allergy info. To be fair, the allergen info is…
Strattons Hotel
So when I first came up with the idea for this blog, it was posts like this that I was looking forward to. Sure, highlighting places that are getting it wrong or even just helping people make decisions of places to go/avoid seems worth doing in its own right; but singing the praises of a…
Trip to York
As mentioned in my last post, Castle Howard, we went to York back in April 2018. York was my home for four happy years whilst at university. I met my wife there. I met my best friend there. I also used to go clubbing on a Wednesday night at a student-friendly nightclub that is now a gentleman’s…
Castle Howard
The oldies are the best, right? Well this is one is from a few months ago: As part of our trip up to York (see next post) we visited a grand country estate called Castle Howard. This impressive house and grounds was used (and even renovated for) location of two motion picture films of Evelyn…