Results tagged “BCU” from Birmingham Mail - Restaurant Spy

Forget the "credit crunch". There's a much better phrase to describe the predicament of the world's financial institutions.

My wife and I last night went out for dinner at the excellent Lasan with a couple of Spanish lecturers who are involved with the course my wife runs at BCU.

One used the wonderful phrase "bank cramp" when struggling to find the right words to describe the current situation.

Somehow I can't get rid of the mental image of Alistair Darling, physio's bag and wet sponge in hand, rushing into RSB's board room and vigorously massagng the seized-up limbs of the chief executive.

I was up horribly early on Sunday cooking for a group of 20 Spanish students who my wife had invited because they'd just arrived in the Birmingham as part of an exchange scheme involving Birmingham City University, where she works.

It was an impressive spread - bruchetta of white bean puree with garlic and rosemary, bruchetta with roasted tomato and anchovy, smoked salmon and horseradish on dark bread, a couple of onions tarts and good quality cocktail sausages.

When they got out their camera phones, I glowed with pride. Then they started taking snapshots of the log fire I'd lit in the dining room.