Showing posts with label Evelyn Brent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evelyn Brent. Show all posts

Monday, November 06, 2006

Evelyn Brent's Spaghetti Mark 2


I have just had an almost perfect weekend. Much hilarity at the World's Biggest Blind Date attempt as mobile phone technology failed to match up to the task of 600 singletons attempting to find their assigned date in a ram jammed bar offering free drinks. Bizarrely I ended up with an ex - the Pocket Rockabilly - having a drink in the calm of the ICA rather than joining the after event scrum at the chavtastic "Rubyblue" nightspot.

On Saturday the chaw-bacon was charm itself. He'd arranged a romantic 1950s style date at a bowling alley Saturday afternoon. I fell over rather gracefully on my first throw - but I was already on my second cocktail at that point. Later on we watched the sun go down over Primrose Hill accompanied by 78s on a wind-up portable gramophone. Bliss. Lovely lie in on Sunday morning with aforementioned chaw-bacon and The Archers, a big hairy steak for lunch then a re-run of Evelyn Brent's spaghetti for 7 chums after fireworks on the roof with an awesome view across London. I love my life!

The blog may be lying fallow for a while as I am off to New Zealand for a few weeks. I hope that Ruth might get her pinny on Texas-side but I know she is busy...

Friday, October 13, 2006

Evelyn Brent's Spaghetti La Fascisti


Got to be quick as it is home-time and I have a gaggle of girls coming over for dinner tonight. I have prepared the spaghetti sauce in advance and it is in the fridge in two large saucepans. A bit like a student supper really but I selected it in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street which was last week. The lefties of London battled it out with Oswald Moseley and his blackshirts - huzzah. I am on the side of the reds you understand rather than the fascists.

So anyhow we will see how the ladies like it.

I may decide to spend my spare time with ladies only for a while. Getting fed up with boys. CAT PARTIES I believe they called them in 1930s Hollywood. Meeeeeooooooow.