baseball

We went out to a baseball game last night, to see the Fort Myers Miracles play the Marauders – I’m not sure where they were from. In between trying to confuse us (“yeah, that’s called a touchdown”), two of Rasmus’ colleagues educated us on the rules of the game. We got it in the end,…

friday favourites

My favourite things this week… Grilling food on our“lanai”. Nothing tastes quite so good as grilled courgette and aubergine (um, wait, zucchini and eggplant 🙂 accompanied with a glass of chilled white wine on a hot evening. Williams – Sonoma. We discovered this shop at the weekend and I am in love. If I lived…

new sunglasses

It took us over a week before we got a photo of us together in Florida. A cool tree (which you can’t really see anyway) and new sunglasses finally prompted this one. You like?

shrimp and mango curry

I made this on Friday night and it was yummy. Excuse the weird colour photo – it was kinda dark and I was hungry so wasn’t about to stop and play around with the lighting and settings! Clearly if this was an actual food blog I’d have at least taken the time to wipe away…

clever men

On Saturday, after a hot morning at the driving range, we headed for what seems to be the only cultural tourist attraction in Fort Myers: the winter holiday homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. We went expecting it to be a pleasant diversion for an hour, walking around a couple of homes with old…

becoming a golf pro

Ok, so not quite. But I had my first lesson today! We live on a golf course (read: retirement colony) so of course I had to learn. Rasmus already knows how to play but it’s been a few years. So we went to a driving range after work today and each had half an hour…