It Has Been a Busy Week!

Hi Everyone,

Very good lunch at Scotts this week. I am a big fan of Scotts!My favourite thing to do is to sit at the bar; then you can virtually see the whole resturant. I was lucky enough to have the company of an attractive blond!

Everytime we do a series of Master Chef I get a budget for clothes ,so I was out shopping. My word there is absolutely an economic downturn - I have never seen Selfridges so quiet. I was also on The One Show with my mate John T. That is a great show, they get very big viewing figures and I am not surprised -I thoroughly enjoyed it!

I had a very good dinner at Rules.As far as I know, Rules is the oldest restaurant in London. They have opened a bar upstairs now, run by the lovely New Yorker, who use to run Angela Hartnett's bar at Claridges.

On the Rugby front, I most certainly witnessed a better display from Martin Johnson's England. However, my under fifteens side at Whitstable were on the wrong end of a right bashing by the talented team at Black Heath. Thoroughly enjoyed the day though - great hospitality and I got on very well with the Barmaid. Watch this space !

It is half term, so I have the kids with me for a few days went to visit my mate Deano who owns the Bath Arms in Crockerton Wiltshire. Great pub with rooms' lovely food and around the corner from Longleate. One day with Deano and you need three days rest.

I did make an appearance on the Alan Titchmarsh Show .I made Cauliflower Pies and forgot to put the Cauliflower in. Oh the joy of live TV!

The finals of Master Chef are underway - I find myself gripped and I know who is going to win!

Still obsessed with Twitter -@puddingface- and I love reading your blog comments!

Speak very soon,

Gregg


Comments


Good luck with that barmaid Gregg, Matt to win Masterchef!
posted by: James | 18/02/09 09:51:11 AM
Ah, a mate with a pub that does lovely food is a good mate to have.
posted by: CJ | 18/02/09 10:25:41 AM
Thanks for the updates puddingface - I have become similarly obsessed with Twitter. I was at Blackheath on Friday night with my under 17 Beckenham boys suffering a defeat. Shame it wasn't on Saturday - I'd have tried giving the barmaid a run for her money :)
posted by: Shell | 18/02/09 11:53:13 AM
I have recently moved from The Netherlands to the UK to live with my girlfriend and we are addicted to your show! Its great and it encourages me and I am sure loads more people to start doing some proper cooking. Keep up the good work! They should start showing this on dutch TV!
posted by: Menno | 18/02/09 04:16:26 PM
hi greg, i watched you and John on The One Show, but i wish id seen u on Alan Tichmarsh insted! lol. i happened to read in an interview somewhere that you are an amateur historian and that you would invite Alexander the Great and Augustus to your dinner party, which i think is great because im studying Classics at university. so ur funny and clever! =D xxx
posted by: jess | 18/02/09 05:52:16 PM
Cauliflower Pies without the cauliflower on live TV - cooking doesn't get tougher than this? Were you sabotaged by an Italian from the Broccoli lobby? Love the show. Keep tweeting!
posted by: Smallster | 18/02/09 08:42:50 PM
Hi! Can you also delete my 2 previous comments please. I don't want to be associated with a middle aged man who's having a public midlife crisis via Twitter!...Gregg, i am embarrassed for you! Silly 20somethings who are only out for what they can get, or sad women desperate for 15 mins of 'fame'? I guess that's why you use them and then discard them so readily. Basically, use/abuse them first, then get rid! (there's always another parasite just around the corner right?). Gregg we're not all like that. You give me the impression that you don't like women very much? You did say that being on TV means women throw themselves at you, women who normally wouldn't give you the time of day. I guess that would make you disillusioned. It's a shame. You came across as such a lovely, warm, funny, family man and you made my heart skip a beat when you replied to me on Twitter. You asked if we'd get on!!! I guess not if all you want is a woman with no conversation but legs that'll open like a 24 hour supermarket (and are as cheap as own brands!). I would have loved to have sat with you in a nice, cosy, quiet pub and just talked, found out about you as a person. I have my own goals in life and am not looking to hang onto anybody's coat tails! Personally i think that your mums affair maybe plays a part in your mistrust of women and refusal to let any woman get too close (i know you love your mum, but that doesn't mean somewhere deep down you're still not affected by those events). It must get very lonely sometimes though, jumping from woman to woman, from bed to bed! (you act like it's 'fun' but i'm not convinced!) Please bring back the lovely Gregg that brought a big smile to my chops when he messaged me...but until then...please delete my comments :-(
posted by: Rosie | 21/02/09 02:46:44 PM
Loving this series of Masterchef Gregg, thanks for making it as entertaining as ever! Hope Mat wins :)
posted by: mks | 25/02/09 12:51:30 AM
So pleased Mat won master chef, he really did deserve it. Just signed up with twitters and am now a follower. Keep up the excellent work
posted by: Joanne | 26/02/09 09:46:05 PM
HI Greg Last night we were glued to master chef as we have been all through the series,it makes me cry.But I dreamt we were seriously in love which I did not go to bed planning and was a total surprise!!It was,well,yummy.My son who is 8 has been filled with chemo and fed through a tube into his stomoch for a year and not much else and I guess seeing people really enjoy food, propper food has become sort of super magnified because I dream of the day he can eat again without a tube.I love food and I love puddings and I wont go on and on but that dream sure cheered me up!!!
Well lots of love Alice P.S I was born in 1964 too!
posted by: ALICE | 27/02/09 07:21:32 AM

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