Oh Ella…
Ella Woodward has been a (virtual) part of our lives for a couple of years now. She might not be a name you’ve heard of before but you may well have seen her blog, heard her podcast, or (most likely) seen her products in your supermarket. She is more commonly known as “Deliciously Ella” and…
A little light humour
In a week when it feels like the world as we know it is starting to fall apart, I appreciate that it can be difficult to get the tone right while persevering with some level of normality. This blog has never aimed to be a purely fact-based information share; the aim has always been to…
Vegan Cheese
I make no apologies for this but I’ve only gone and done another one… Free From Humour now has its second episode! Alan and I made the (frankly foolish) decision to review vegan cheeses. Lets be straight here: I can’t stand cheese and Alan hasn’t had real cheese for 15-odd years! We are the least…
Beautiful Italy
Piglet has been invited to a pizza making birthday party. Yep, that’s right… Little Piglet who only yesterday was a baby I used to rock to sleep in my arms is now getting invited to birthday parties. And not any old birthday parties; ones that involve making pizza! The location of this party is Beautiful…
Allergy Disclaimers
A bit of new experience for me: We spent much of Saturday in Guildford and planned to have dinner out before driving home to put Piglet to bed. We hadn’t planned to eat anywhere in particular but knew there were a few of our reliable regulars to fall back on. That said I didn’t really…
Flora spread
Just a point of interest rather than an entire blog post… Unless I can link in some tenuous back-story before I get to the main part. Or at least a pun… perhaps not. I fear I’ve spread myself too thinly on this story. (Groan…) Anyway, the point is that Flora have decided to only use…
Whipsnade Zoo and River Cottage
I’ve taken some time off over the Easter holidays to do some family stuff. A combination of basic life-admin to try and get some of the inexcusable must-do tasks completed but also some down time and quality family time. I’ll be honest, I struggled to ease myself into it. Wednesday I think I drove my…
Easter
Easter eggs are always a disappointment, historically. While dairy-free, soya-free chocolate bars are reasonably easy to find – limited items like Easter eggs are much less prevalent. Well, usually anyway… This year there seem to be a sudden surge in suitable options. I’ve managed to get my hands on a few different eggs already and…
Birdworld and Roast Dinners
Apologies for the delay in blog posts. Life in its usual time-consuming habit seems to have just got in the way. It’s funny, some weeks seem really productive while others seem to be just firefighting to get from one day to the next. I’m not complaining at anything other than my own lack of efficiency.…
The boy with the chilli sauce
On the back of one of the comments by Alex on my last blog post (link here, if you’re interested), I realise that I’ve turned a bit of a blind eye to the benefits of Asian food in being milk-free. In the interests of shameless self promotion, here is the guest blog about aforementioned Alex…
Coffee in Bath – The forum
This blog is in danger of becoming a tour of the UK’s independent coffee shops that sell Almond Milk lattes! But again, just after Christmas, we found ourselves in a city centre frantically searching Google for places to get a suitable hot drink. The city, this time, Bath. Our home for about 4 years when…
Pho Pho Pho! A Christmas Treat!
Well this is an interesting one. I’m hardly a diplomatic journalist but for the first time, blogging about allergy management has thrown up a potential conflict of interest! Let me explain… You may have seen my previous post about eating at Pho in Oxford. I really enjoyed the food but we had a slightly mixed…
Surprisingly Suitable – 16th Nov 2018
Custard. That famously thick, sweet, milk and cream based pudding. Obviously the most famous brand of custard powder would contain copious amounts of dairy. Right? Wrong! Welcome to my second list of everyday(ish) items that are, possibly surprisingly, suitable for those who need to avoid cow’s milk and soya from their diet. Bird’s Custard Powder…
Cote Brasserie – Westbourne Grove
Just a normal Wednesday evening: a pre-curling, French restaurant, work night out… I’m lucky that I work for a company that understands the benefits of team-bonding exercises as a boost to team morale. Not to the extent of ‘all expenses paid’ benders at ‘conferences’ in far flung corners of the world but occasional evenings out…
The Hive, Stow on the Wold
The need for coffee on a sore head was the driver of our trip to The Hive in Stow on the Wold last Sunday. The sore head a result of the wedding of my dear friend to his fiancee before he ups sticks and moves to live with her in Singapore. If there was an…
Hampton Court Palace
One of the perks of my wife being a teacher is that she sometimes gets free passes to visit the places that she’s going to take her girls to as a pre-trip investigation. A few years ago we had a jolly to Warwick Castle and most recently she got free tickets to go to Hampton…
Trip to Oxford-Pho
So… Following on from my wonderful lunch in Oxford last weekend; our day disappeared so quickly that we ended up eating out for dinner as well. Not the original plan but sign of the far and away improved eating out flexibility I was once so incapable of! We looked around for other places to eat…
Trip to Oxford-Mowgli
Phew! What a weekend! At least Piglet wasn’t poorly, it was nice and warm and we had a nice relaxing Sunday planned to make up for Saturday. Oh, wait… It’s been planned for a while but on Saturday we went back to Oxford for a bit of sightseeing, shopping and to visit family. In a…
Vegan Magnums
Shut. The. Front. Door! Magnum, as in ‘The ice-cream you used to have on holiday” Magnum, have started doing a vegan range. And what’s more – they don’t contain soya. I think I might need to sit down… I think it shows a real turning point in allergy/dietary acceptance when a big player launches…
Coffee Culture in Guildford
So we found ourselves in Guildford at the weekend. A little bit out of our way but we’ve been having trouble getting Piglet’s hair cut. It’s been getting longer and longer to the point that it literally loops out and then straight back into his eyes. He’s even learnt the phrase “my hair’s in my…