this has been a rather busy week so i guess i will just summarise the week's dining: e made a delicious roast chicken, we shared a fairly gigantic rib of beef at anchor and hope, friday evening saw some fairly good tapas at barrafina (though the memories of madrid remain) and yesterday lunch at quo vadis. this last yielded a pretty great rum baba, but i found the service to be a bit irritating. in the evening i made a salad of pea shoots and black pudding to go with some champagne, and poached a couple of pears in claret. lets hope this week is a bit less stressful, and that i find time to do more cooking myself.