Snapshots: May

It’s been such a great month for us! We’re inching closer and closer to the one year anniversary of our move to London and this month we also enjoyed our very first taste of national exposure by having our feature published in the Guardian. The digital version of that is still viewable here.

We’ve also had all three of our videos for Waitrose TV uploaded. We have a post coming on that tomorrow!

We’re busy preparing for a major move from one end of London to the other and our content hasn’t been as frequent as before but we cannot wait to show you our new place and we’re looking forward to making it our own over the next few months. It’s going to be fun to explore Peckham and report on all the amazing things down south for the next few years, after spending this year exploring the East End.

Thanks, as usual, for all of your support and for reading the blog. Do send us tweets, comments or e-mails letting us know what you like or want to see more of!

Check out some of our posts from the past month: 

Eurovision Feasting Part 1

Eurovision Feasting Part 2

A Quick Trip To… Exeter

Round My Hometown: Drogheda

Audioblog – Baking Bread and Paul Hollywood

Snapshots: April

Another month has flown by and we’ve been up to some exciting stuff!

We took a long-awaited trip back to Ireland over Easter and visited our friends and family in Drogheda and Dublin, plus spent a day visiting some new cafés and restaurants in Dublin for a big picture post that’s coming in a short while.

We’re going full throttle into our audio posts on SoundCloud, having done three of them already. Have you listened in? Let us know what you think and tell us your own opinions, we will be posting one every week. Keep an eye out for our newest Songs Of Proves playlist too! We adore music and always have it banging on when cooking in the kitchen, so we love sharing our favourite tunes of the moment with you all!

Now, announcement time. We’ve some news to share; we’re going to be leaving our home in London next month…

Snapshots: February/March

Hmm… It’s been an eventful month as ever, or should we say 8 weeks? Apologies for the lack of snapshotting in February, resulting in a double post this time around. If you follow us on Facebook, you will have remembered that we explained we were undergoing some changes and fighting technical demons with the blog! Semi-annoyed to say we are still experiencing them, but it’s business as usual on the blog front and we will be quietly working away on making this bigger and better all the while.

Snapshots: January 2014

It’s been another busy, busy month for us both since returning to London after a lengthy Christmas break back in Ireland. Unlike many others we didn’t partake in any New Year resolutions, and instead we upped our intake of wine, greasy food and treats – just to even out the balance in the world. You can thank us later for that.

But we’ve also been exploring our city and making blog plans for the year ahead. Here’s a visual representation of the past month… What would your January look like?

Snapshots: December 2013

December saw us take two trips home, begin jobs, leave jobs, over-do it at Christmas parties and spend lots of time making and baking edible gifts. Not even a horrendous storm could keep us from returning home and now we look forward to a brand new year in our adopted hometown of London – beginning this one as seasoned residents. Keep on keepin’ on up to date with both our Instagram accounts – RussellJames91 and iPadzorz.

Pantibar pints

Christmas morning freshly-baked bread

Love from GastroGays

The Alford family tree

The Hanlon household tree

Caramelised onion tart

Selfridges snowglobe

Let the leftovers commence!

Christmas afternoon bubbles

Turkish eggs for brunch on a cold December morning

Chestnut soup, finished with creme fraiche and thyme

Merry Gastromas!

Oriental, Christmas-spiced pork belly slices

Travelling trips

Suited up for Little Christmas in Drogheda

Snowflake truffles with coffee

Drinks with friends

Christmas dinner with all the trimmings

Chocolate bark – a perfect edible gift

Christmas party shenanigans

 

November 2013: Snapshots

It’s been a hectic November in the lives of the GastroGays. We celebrated Patrick’s birthday, hosted a couple more family and friends on trips to see us and both of us have our heads down working our ways towards Christmas and tying up ‘ting’ before we head back home to Ireland for a week at Christmas.

The new year will bring a fresh change of scenery for us. No, we’re not moving country again (once a year is more than enough for us)! But we are re-locating. Just a few streets away within our current area, all going well. So send your positive vibes please…

We have lots of Christmassy content coming your way all throughout December so keep your eyes peeled, it’s going to be a fantastic month…