Posts Tagged ‘Easter’
A special tribute at Highland war memorial
A special service of remembrance is taking place tomorrow (Sunday). The Easter Ross town of Invergordon has an unusual war memorial – one which was built in 1947 by Polish soldiers with stone taken from a local beach to commemorate the Polish Forces lost in war. A Remembrance Service is held there every year, one…
Read MoreA delicious simnel cake recipe, just in time for Easter
Simnel Cake Recipe from Sopwell House’s Executive Head Chef Gopi Chandran Just in time for Easter, Executive Head Chef at Sopwell House, Gopi Chandran, has shared his fool-proof Simnel cake recipe. The traditional Easter treat has been enjoyed since the Medieval times as a cake symbolic of the Easter story. Simnel cake is a light…
Read MoreFelicity’s Chocolate
With Easter just around the corner, there is no escaping the influx of chocolate gracing the supermarket shelves. But why give something luxurious and a little different this year to your loved ones? Felicity’s Chocolate based in Aberdeenshire create handmade Belgian chocolates with transferable prints – the choice of designs are endless! With a range of shapes…
Read MoreLet them eat…..
Monday April 25th –…sweets, one of the many highlights of Mrs A’s catering for the jockeys at the Fife Point-to-Point on Saturday. Unfortunately there weren’t many there as the recent dry spell has led to a dearth of runners in point-to-points up and down the country, ironically it rained steadily for most of the day…
Read MoreAnd now…
Friday April 22nd – Easter, the Fife Point-to-Point and Perth entries; glorious weather all week so fast ground means that what might have been a crazily busy day tomorrow should be a relaxed fun one with perhaps one or two runners at Balcormo where determined water has taken the sting out of most of the…
Read MoreThird time lucky…….
Tuesday April 12th - Having just been denied in the shadow of the post twice at Hexham this season it was third time lucky for Lucy yesterday when riding 20-1 outsider Thunder Hawk she just got the better of warm favourite Ardnaclancy for owner Robert Miller-Bakewell and trainer Stuart Coltherd; I was absolutely delighted for all…
Read More