Q. How do you get a bear out of a tree using cheese?

Good Morning. Cold and grey. No sign of the Somerset Riviera this particular Saturday. Elizabeth David's Staffordshire Oatcakes for breakfast. Soft, comfortingly oaty, slightly crispy around the edges.

75g strong flour - 75g fine oatmeal (I attacked some porridge oats with a hand held blender) - pinch of salt - mix 5g dried yeast with warm water (not too hot or you'll kill the yeast, it won't like this) & a little sugar until it bubbles up - mix to a soft batter with warm milk and a little water. Leave to rise in a warm place for an hour or so. Mine did not rise. Time to buy new yeast. Cook as per pancakes and serve with honey and butter. Or bacon! Makes six smallish oatcakes.

No no no, there was no beer for breakfast. Not today... I was treated to lunch at the White Hart Inn. The website does it absolutely no justice whatsoever. Recommended in the The Good Food Guide the pub is small, modern and comfortable but nothing fancy.

Two pints of Cornish Doom Bar. Lamb with mushrooms and parsnip crisps for Dr W. Ribeye steak, rare, with a herby, mellow garlicky butter for me. Served with seasonal vegetables which happily turned out to be carrots and a mixture of kale and cavelo nero. With butter. Nice touch. Well done the White Hart.

I know. The picture is too dark. Use your imagination!

After scouring the charity shops for china crabs and trying to find a longer chain for my Christmas present which the Royal Mail finally decided to deliver, it's back home to Total Wipeout and Kohlrabi Carpaccio. Who would have thought that kohlrabi, goats cheese and anchovies would work so well! Really, it was delicious.

A.Camembert.