From the keyboard of Dr Jan

Highlights of Dr Jan’s life, including cars, afternoon tea and other fabulousness 🙂

  • Late lunch

    We’re having a (very) late lunch today at the Côte restaurant in the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. The food is just extraordinarily good. So far we’ve had our starters and my twice baked cheese souffle was incredible. My dining companion’s scallops were amazing too. Both our main courses were excellent, we had salmon bearnaise…

  • Olives

    This week I discovered that Marks and Spencer sell grilled olives. Oh my goodness, they are a Taste Sensation! To quote the late, great and sorely missed Kenny Everett, “Darlings, you’ll simply die of pleasure!”. If you like olives, treat yourself 😎

  • Mixed Case

    Back in the day when a printer was a job rather than a machine, lines of text were created by stacking metal bars, each with a letter molded on to the end of it. The letters were kept in two large wooden cases, one for CAPITAL LETTERS, and the other for normal letters. The cases…