December 28, 2007 – 12:10 pm
As mentioned earlier I’d planned to get a bit of running done during the Christmas holidays. Originally this had just been the 4 mile run at Clevedon, and hoped to get a few other runs in as time allowed. I was pleased however to hear that the Mendip Hills Hash House Harriers (MH4) were [...]
October 26, 2007 – 6:56 pm
A little while back I’d noticed that my website was getting lots of search hits for “Tiddy Oggies”, a variety of which were developed by my grandfather back in the 1960’s alongside snails, of course. It was a pork based pasty (with a nice cheese pastry), and called the “Priddy Oggy” as a play on [...]
October 24, 2007 – 10:50 pm
BBC West had a special programme tonight that tackled a subject dear to my heart: Snails. And how to eat them.
The programme I gather will appear is here at www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/west/
I had a brief e-mail exchange earlier this year with the chap behind the programme, as - like many other people - he’d come across [...]