Excellent

PVP celebrate the Fourth of July in style

Anyone up for making a cake in the shape of No. 10 for the 5th of November? ;o)

It's kind of odd that the UK actually doesn't have a real national holiday but then again, none of the events that are usually cause for celebration in other countries (independence from oppressors, toppling of the monarchy/ruling classes, (counter-)revolution. draft of a constitution, (re)unificaton etc.), so instead it's the day someone tried to blow up Parliament and it's not even a public holiday.

Mushroom Stroganoff

or at least a variation thereof. It's been a while since I thought something I cooked looked nice enough to post so here you go. The "recipe" (ingedients and method, no measurements) is on flickr.

Americans in Arbury?

There are fireworks going off somewhere, at least it sounds like it.

Bonekickers

The new "mystical archaeological drama" starting on BBC on Tuesday has been advertised quite a lot. There was a clip on Jonathan Ross just now and they were studying chunks of wood from "the holy land" with one chunk having "traces of blood and metal" as if "someone was lacerated with a nail and bled onto the wood". This could be extremely cheesy but fun or utterly dire. I'll give it a go on Tuesday (probably while packing) and will decide then.