My new favourite airport game is getting a free test of the most expensive aftershave I can find... ...I got a £240 spritz today, but only after hearing the word "squirt" repeated back to me with frankly the appropriate level of disdain 💨😂

It was date night yesterday, and I took the opportunity on #KitchenEndeavours to finally get round to a classic... I've always been a Dolmio 🍅 guy but that simply has to change, this was rather sophisticated 🍝

Dubai Pasta...!? I won't lie I'm only guessing that Dubai Chocolate is pistachios. But... on #KitchenEndeavours tonight, this might be nuts 🥜 but it's pretty tasty, just a little dry even when I went over the top with Tahini

My bank just did a "2025 Wrapped"... absolutely bleak stuff!

Date night #KitchenEndeavours was a choice of Kitchen Heaven or Kitchen Hell, a format point I may have stolen... She went hell but now no longer fears the runner bean, entirely! I've said it before, the 🍋 is the game changer in this!

Walked to Lidl to buy mushrooms for dinner... Got to Lidl and realised I'd forgotten my wallet, so walked home... Got home and realised I had twenty quid cash in my phone case.

Holy 'Moley! It's a return to the homemade guac in #KitchenEndeavours 🥑 It is insanely fresh and zesty, so good! 🇲🇽

Deciding on a board game to play in the pub later... I might be inspired by England's plight in Australia #Ashes 🏏

If we do lose 5-0, we'll always have those 6 overs. #Ashes 🏏

Certainly enough time here for England to do the decent thing and give us a Sunday morning lay-in. #Ashes 🏏

Are we undercooked... overcooked... or just cooked!? This is so bleak. #Ashes 🏏

As I sit swaddled in my duvet on the sofa... the grim outlook that's growing for England's hopes in this series are all too familiar 😬 #Ashes 🏏

DECLARE!!!! 😂 #Ashes 🏏

Rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot! #Ashes 🏏

Starc is made unplayable by England's relentless desire to play him 🫠 #Ashes 🏏

This is great, play well and we can get them in for twilight tomorrow... This is ok, declare 8 down and get ten overs at them tonight. #Ashes 🏏

Discussing Harry Brook... #Ashes 🏏

30-odd mins without losing a wicket... England are lulling me into a false sense of security! #Ashes 🏏

The 4am start should be less brutal... and yet. #Ashes 🏏

December 1st... advent calendars go! #Taskmaster advent calendar is clearly going to drive me insane 😂

Nailed it!

Christmas Decorations 🎄 done, as a reward, I can't lie this isn't as pine-y as one might expect. 🍺

Motherland Christmas Special and a 6%-er seems like a solid plan as I sort the tinsel and start to scale the stairs!

Let it begin! 🎄

Switzerland 🇨🇭... pretty bloody picturesque!

That's a pretty funky sky!

Done the big pre-Christmas decorations dusting while listening to Three Bean Salad with the TV fire on 🙌 Now 10mins of Rugby, then The North London Derby, it's a good day!

I can see why the recipe for this #KitchenEndeavours use a photo while still in the pan... an absolute nightmare to plate up with style 😂 However, taste-wise, this is a bit of a banger! Very rich so perhaps an infrequent brunch rotation option 🥚

I've been grazing like a complete 🐮 as a result the Ashes 2am alarm clock, so #KitchenEndeavours was quick and healthy... But I did the areabbiata myself and I'm never going to microwave a new potato! Bit too much 🌶 and 🍋 created an assault in the senses!

I'm not going to lie, I preferred it when my timeline was all cricket-y this morning.

If you don't love how Derek Rae pronounces Bundesliga teams, you don't love life. FC Koln pre-match atmosphere is a banger by the way 🔴⚪️🔴🐐

Question for the 2am #Ashes 🏏 crew... Do airport drinking rules apply? I feel like this session demands a bloody mary 🍹

The Mystery of the Murmuring Snicko... #Ashes 🏏

If the Bluesky hive mind is to be believed... this game has been over about half a dozen times in just over four sessions 😂 #Ashes 🏏

I mean, sure, I'd like a lot more but anything north of 150... given the pace the Aussies bat. They'll need to bat the longest innings of the match. Circa 50 overs... madness! #Ashes 🏏

This game is absolutely bonkers, how can it be such a roller coaster in just over 90 overs so far 🤣 #Ashes 🏏

Quack Crawley? 🦆🦆 ...Sorry. #Ashes 🏏

Fair play... that is a spectacular catch. That's making some montages! #Ashes 🏏

Simultaneously finished Coffee Number One and the Aussie innings... Does that mean coffee is a wicket taker!? If so, goodnight again 💤 🤣 #Ashes 🏏

Priorities... cricket, cricket, cricket... COFFEE!! #Ashes 2am Club 🏏

I've tried the TNT #Ashes coverage a couple of times today, but the commentary is weird. People talking in staccato style, making everything sound like a trite soundbite. Thank the lord for TMS and the pause button to sync it to the TV.

Steve Smith's 48 ball innings described as "a long vigil" 🤣 #Ashes 🏏

I feel like my energy levels have been depleted even quicker than England's run-rate #Ashes 🏏

It's a rummage in the cupboard for #KitchenEndeavours which means Moroccan-Style Night 🇲🇦 Chorizo-style sausage were broken up and used in sauce which went on jazzy bulgar wheat featuring red cabbage and 🫛 It had big mid-week meal energy.

Date Night Dinner on #KitchenEndeavours and it's a winter weather dish. I struggled to adjust the liquid in the sauce, so it was a touch dry, but this was still good! 🦐

Presumably this is what Nig' calls his undercarriage?

This doesn't look impressive for #KitchenEndeavours... but following afternoon in the rain watching my ⚽️ team get battered, a simple quick dinner was needed! Enter the panchetta and mushroom 🍄 carbonara, simple but filling and tasty 🙌

A Halloween Special in #BeerClub 🎃 This is the most feared beer 🍺 in our world but holds a simple rule: "If you see her, she see's you and therefore you must drink." It's absolutely awful and will ruin your night.

It's the end of the freebie fish 🐟 for #KitchenEndeavours tonight... Took not much more than 10mins to knock up, and is pretty tasty but maybe needs, more than the wee bit of smoke salmon I had leftover! The addition of fresh chives and dill 🍃 was a good call though!

It's a #KitchenEndeavours repeat tonight... Still the best thing I've cooked in a while! Absolutely delicious and almost certainly the next date night dinner sorted!