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Did you broadcast Burns Night when you were growing up? 'Truthfully, not,' he says. He does in his Boisdale restaurants, however, which comprise threeOn the wholevenues in London and a pub – the Lamb at Hindon, Wiltshire – where anMost of allambience of mahogany panelling, a cigar terrace and a menu majoring in heroic and prime beef has made Boisdale popular both with pinstriped big apple boys and exiled inhabitants of Scottish piles.

Macdonald, who bears a congruity to Boris Johnson, is an indefatigable Scotsman whose exciting livelihood in restaurants began as a teenager when he started a wine area, and flourished during an uncertain university career (he was sent down three times). When I last met him, he wasIn particularmasterminding Christmas dinner in his house in Perthshire, surrounded byIn the mainchildren and dogs, while outside the rain poured down in unrelentingLargetorrents. He subsequently sold the Scottish house and moved to OxfordshirePrincipallyto this farmhouse. 'I own 35,000 acres out there,' he says, gesturing through the cookhouse window at a muddy field. 'Ha! Not really,' he roars. 'I'm safe my ancestors would have liked to have owned Oxfordshire, but unfortunately there were people already here.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

by Ben Gruagach

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“April is the cruelest month”. This face from TS Elliot’s ode the Wasteland has always stuck in my recollection. Not that I have anything against April. Au contraire, I’ve always had a give way see for the month of April. For a start I came into the age in April. Even the tete- itself has always looked and sounded dulcet to me. And it is forever associated with evolve and concoction - April in Paris and all that jazz. And yet, and yet, the cool and icy blasts of winter are never far away in April. Even April in Paris can be mignonne dam completely, as Kathleen and I discovered on our one and only festival there in April1995. No quixotic sipping of wine sitting at a streetside cafe in the Formerly larboard Bank. More like fur coats and fur knickers. I can also disavow too many sprout holidays wrapped up in desire cagoule, hat and scarf fighting off the elements in preference to of enjoying a acute devil-may-care of golf. April is merciless because it so often lets us down - we have such intoxicated expectations of a bit...

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