This humanist exhortation by the ancients is the antithesis of this past year of Death, Famine, War and Conquest. A year that forebodingly felt like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had arrived to ride roughshod over all of us. But, no, our disasters were not biblical revelations fulfilled,.
Anyone who grew up with roast leg of lamb on Sundays, served with traditional British mint sauce, will be taken straight back to their childhood with one whiff of it in the air. But this week I updated it, using the delectable cut that is lamb shoulder, rather than the traditional leg, and roas.
Three decades in the making, the trip we thought might never happen finally became a reality. Sometimes a journey to places you’ve never seen is far more than merely a holiday.