Chare Close Cottage Bed and Breakfast (B&B)

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Recipes - 1

Aubergine Tunisienne

3 Aubergine cubed (degauged)
2 Onion sliced
1 garlic clove - chopped
1/4 tsp cayennne
1/4 tsp ground clove
1/2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
can chopped toms
mint
parsley
raisins


Moroccan Lamb

2 dessert spoon paprika
1 dessert spoon cumin seeds
1 dessert spoon coriander seeds
6 - 7 cloves garlic
bunch coriander leaves
olive oil
1/2 dess peppercorns
1/2 wine glass water

Moving to Skelton

OK, so Nik's got her move to the Leeds office sorted and I've got my "Work From Home" deal fixed so we're moving back North in August. We decided on York as it's not Leeds (been there, done that), it's near Leeds and it's on the east coast mainline for me going to London once a week.

After living in London for a year and a half we decided to get something a bit quieter and have gone for Skelton, a village just outside Skelton.

We've had our offer accepted on this place so we'll hopefully be moving in in August. Here is the Skelton info bit:

Estate Agents Description

Floor Plan

3D Tour

Skelton parish Site

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Trip to Canada - April 2006

(Link to all the pics of the holiday)

OK, so we're coming to the end of our stay in British Columbia, so what have we been up to.

Trip downtown.

Spent the night downtown so we could go shopping and go for a meal etc. Stayed at The Pinnacle (view left). Went out to CinCins for a meal.

Out East

We headed out to Penticton with Mark, Kelly and the boys as Mark had a works conference thing. Stayed at a hotel on the waterfront. Spent time the boys and did some babysitting which was a bit hair-raising! Went for a tour at the Sumac Ridge Winery and had a tasting. V nice.

Headed further out to Nelson and then Ainsworth where we spent time in the Hot Springs by the side of Kootenay Lake. Stayed the night there and then headed back towards Kelowna where we spent the night again. The following morning we went to the Mission Hill winery and did some more tasting.

Got back to Vancouver that afternoon after travelling about 1600km (1000 miles)and going over some pretty high passes. The road between Kelowna and Merrittgot to about 1800m altitude and the Coquihalla was about 1200m. Lots of snow, ice and frozen lakes.

A new gileswright.com

This is a new start for gileswright.com. I've decided to start using blogger.com to keep this up to date for speed and ease of use reasons. So there we go. More to follow...