Tag Archives: Indian

Shifnal Balti

We recently visited a local Indian restaurant for the first time. I was pleasantly surprised by the experience having been disappointed by so many over the last few years. I have posted some positive reviews (copy below). Sadly back-problems preclude me visiting again in the near future. Excellent food, cooked fresh, presented very nicely. It

Amazing Human Body

We saw a performance by Traces at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry last night. An acrobatic dance show described on their site thus: TRACES combines high-level circus skills with an electric urban street energy. With disciplines as varied as Chinese poles, basketball, skateboards, classical piano, dance, comedy and illustration, these five acrobats move quickly from

new specs

Had my friendly neighbourhood optician put some new lenses in my existing spectacle frames this evening. The lenses are varifocals to a new prescription so I am going through the usual head mangling process of my eyes (or rather, my brain) adjusting to the changes. Fortunately, the distance part of my prescription has not changed

Indian Wedding

We were due to do a shoot yesterday but a few days ago we received an unexpected wedding invitation from an old friend that I had not been in touch much with for a while. 19 years ago he was best man at our wedding. That wedding had thrown him a little as it was

Fortnightly rubbish collections

I had to take a load of household rubbish to the tip today. I was clearly not the only one. Every now and then, the regime of fortnightly rubbish collection proves to be too  big a stretch for us. I am not sure why. Perhaps we just spend more money than a lot of people.

Birthday party

Good birthday experience for Mutty.

Big Breakfast and Karate

We went out for a traditional cooked breakfast, walked the dog and then went for karate training.