Let’s Do Lunch at Absurd

I was a little later eating than normal so had Googled a place where I could have a late lunch and set off for my first choice. When I arrived the place was locked up. I don’t know whether this is permanent or if they had checked out their on-line hits, seen my name and locked […]

Whitelock’s and The Turk’s Head Beer Festival

Another July, another Whitelock’s and The Turk’s Head Beer Festival. What I like about the annual event, this being the fourth of its ilk, is that there is a theme. This means you are not just presented with a load of disparate beers requiring that you spend more time drifting around the venue or reading […]

The Case of the Frightened Lady at Leeds Grand Theatre

The Case of the Frightened Lady is the latest offering from Bill Kenwright’s Classic Thriller Theatre Company and is in the same vein as last year’s A Judgment in Stone…….. ……..That is to say that the ‘thrill’ had been completely removed from the term ‘thriller’.  To be fair, this was a vast improvement on last […]

Leeds and Beyond – Farmers Market  3.  Harrogate

Of all the Farmers’ Markets I will be visiting in this series, Harrogate is unique in that it is the only one not to be held at the weekend, taking place on the second Thursday of every month from 9.00am until 4.00pm. It is probably just as well that it is a weekday event as […]

Let’s Do Lunch at Hessian, Oakwood

As my regular reader may have noticed, the cheque’s in the post, I am doing a series of articles on Farmers’ Markets and so using the opportunity to do some Let’s Do Lunches in the suburbs on the market days. They are held over weekends and so the lunch spots will probably have a different […]