😂 It’s in the replies!

Lastly douse the flames with sixteen large coffee cups full of scalding hot, very strong black coffee. Stir, remove vanilla pod, dry and store to use again! I have to confess I have not attempted this recipe! Let me know if you have or do. (Might need a fire extinguisher handy) And here’s Fanny!

of sugar and a whole vanilla pod. In a darkened room, this is then tipped over eight slightly warmed coffee cups full of brandy; lit with a match and the ribbons of flame pulled up for a while with the ladle to make a pretty show and also burn in the flavour of orange or tangerine and vanilla. (3)

Café Brulot An exotic and justifiably labelled ‘aphrodisiac’ for service after dinner. A coffee drink created by Brillat Savarin, the celebrated 18th century gastronome and writer. Thinly cut peel of 1 orange or tangerine is bruised in a punch bowl with a ladle to impart flavour to 16 lumps (2)

It comes after years of cover-ups & denials not least from Boris Johnson who was in charge of MI6 as foreign minister at the time & whose first act as PM was to ennoble the Baron of Siberia. But it also went beyond Johnson & Starmer continued it too. We now finally need some sunlight. 2/

I think you should!

Champion of champions!!

Thanks T!

Oh no! That’s a shame.

Thanks, will do!

Venice is unbelievable, in a good way! Still haven’t got to Istanbul. Must put that right.

It’s all Greek to me?!

Nice!

It’s actually an olive. I have no idea what it was doing there. It made me laugh!

I think that Lisbon is possibly my favourite city. Have you been to the tile museum?

This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!

Don’t know about you but I think I am at my happiest beside the sea. x

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