Sleigh bells ring...

are you listening,
In the lane, snow is glistening
A beautiful sight,
We're happy tonight.
Walking in a winter wonderland.

The Germans tempt you with huge sausages on the menu, chips and mulled wine on a cold and chilly autumn day. However, the honor goes to Rudolf I, the first reindeer of Santa as a shrine at the entrance.

However, the best is still British hog roast on a spit, with crackling mustard and apple cider sauce. So yummy that I couldn't resist after having sausages on chips.

The Germans are well known for their inovation in technology that they even devised a floating grill in their kitchen. I guess, it might have existed so long ago that they used better materials and finishes.

I would like to take home this giant pan... I just love the Germans!

Last but not least, the warm cuppa mulled wine is nice on a cold day...

Food from all over the world...

Prepared some lunch for children from a club which I used to volunteer... It was food from everywhere. I made satay with diced turkey meat... which was indeed yummy!

Armistice Day

Tomorrow we remember the fallen on Armistice Day... I am just sadden by the cost of war by through the news of the fallen everyday.

Charles Dickens

I need to read the whole works of Charles Dickens. I was given a quiz to name the 16 books that Charles Dickens wrote and I can only name a few:

Christmas Carol

Olver Twist

A Tale of 2 Cities

Great Expectations

That was all I could name... however there are more than that. Here is the full list:

Dickens work	Publication Date
Sketches by Boz	1836
The Pickwick Papers	monthly parts Mar 1836 - Oct 1837
Oliver Twist	monthly parts Jan 1837 - Mar 1839
Nicholas Nickleby	monthly parts Mar 1838 - Sep 1839
The Old Curiosity Shop	weekly parts Apr 1840 - Feb 1841
Barnaby Rudge	weekly installments Feb 1841 - Nov 1841
Martin Chuzzlewit	monthly parts Jan 1843 - July 1844
A Christmas Carol	Dec 1843
Dombey and Son	monthly parts Oct 1846 - Apr 1848
David Copperfield	monthly parts May 1849 - Nov 1850
Bleak House	monthly parts Mar 1852 - Sep 1853
Hard Times	weekly parts Apr 1854 - Aug 1854
Little Dorrit	monthly parts Dec 1855 - June 1857
A Tale of Two Cities	weekly parts Apr 1859 - Nov 1859
Great Expectations	weekly parts Dec 1860 - Aug 1861
Our Mutual Friend	monthly parts May 1864 - Nov 1865
The Mystery of Edwin Drood	monthly parts - Apr 1870 - Sep 1870

I will endeavor to go get them second hand and read them... John Grisham will have to take a back seat :) for now...

Weekend away in Kent...

Spend the weekend away at The Oast and explored Bodiam Castle over the weekend with people from church and the Alpha Course.

Crisis...

I love John Grisham as a writer. He is a prolific and a very good articulated writer when it comes to legal themed novels. However, with this new book, The Innocent Man, I just can't seem to finish and cross the first third part of the book. I have given up.

Consider yourself...

a pickpocket? You gotta pick a pocket or two?

I went to watch Oliver the Musical at the Royal Dury Theatre, a production by Cameron Mackintosh. It was amazing and it was the best show I have've watched live on theatre. Would pay money to watch it again.

Another

Liverpool disappointment. You win some, you lose some...