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Category Archives: 2012
A little piece…
There’s not a lot left of 2012. Within a few hours it will have been consigned to history, albeit a very clear history owing to the millions of instagrams, billions of tweets and trillions of irrevocable, bare assed, Facebook entries … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Art photography, Bad Habits, Baking, cake, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Excess, Expectation, Facebook, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Illusion, Instagram, New Year, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Scavengers of Mumbai, Tweet, Uncategorized, Virtual, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, food photographers, Going viral, Internet, New Year, Photography, rubbish dumps, writing, yoghourt culture
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Should Joy be released?
Sobriety is low on my list of seasonal wishes and yet, as I grow older, I find myself slowly growing into a more sober mood during this week of festivities than at any other time of the year. There is … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Christmas, Digital photography, Drinks, Emotion, Excess, Expectation, Falling Down, family, Foie Gras, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, friendship, Humour, Indolence, Ingrate, lifestyle, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Sobriety, Writing
Tagged Christmas, clear thinking, Excess, food, food photographers, France, Photography, simple logic, Sobriety, writing, yoghourt culture
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A jolly good egg…..
Another encounter with the scanner has shown me that the gift of giving can permeate the mind of even the meanest spirited electronic brain. It was as though I had encountered the reanimated, fully epiphanised Scrooge, in mechanical form, cheerily … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Art photography, Christmas, Digital photography, Eggs, Emotion, Expectation, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Memory, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Religion, Still life, Three Wise Men, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Christmas, food, food photographers, France, Photography, writing
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Myrhh balls…
The sun today has been smothered under a dull, damp, grey cushion leaving the world silent and lifeless. I have the feeling that nature is in mourning, and with every reason as it feels as though the kind has been … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Art photography, Baking, Bistro, cake, Chocolate, Christmas, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, harmony, Humour, Landscapes, Myrrh, Patricia Wells, Pears, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Poire William, Uncategorized, Weather, Writing
Tagged baking, Christmas, food, food photographers, France, landscapes, misty morning, modest beauty, outdoors, patricia wells, photographic media, Photography, sweet pastry
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All you need is love…..
…not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. As the inside temperature of the house, this morning, was a crisp 9°C it was no wonder that nothing was stirring, it was more of a wonder that anything was still … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, All You Need is Love, Art photography, Childhood, Childhood memories, Childhood memories, Christmas, Christmas decorations, Christmas Eve, Cooking, Digital photography, Dreams, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, family, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, friendship, harmony, Humour, Illusion, John Lennon, lifestyle, Memory, perfect day, Photography, Reality, Sex, Writing
Tagged Christmas, Christmas Eve, food, Groundhog Day, lifestyle
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I think we might be doing it wong…
“This is going to hurt me a lot more than it’s going to hurt you”is a phrase that is only vocalised when the exact opposite is true. Had I been in Sidney Carton’s shoes, that thought would have correctly passed through … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Bad luck, Diagnosis, Good luck, Guillotine, Health, Hospital, Humour, hypocrisy, Illusion, Ingrate, lifestyle, Luck, photography course, Photography holiday, Reality, Sidney Carton, Uncategorized, Wong-Baker, Writing
Tagged Health, Hospitals, Pain relief
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Gold,Frankincense and what the f…k is that….
Glacé cherries and Christmas decorations have something in common apart from looking cheap and cheerful. Their communion is that they both offer much more than they can ever deliver in that they depend on a thin veneer of cosmetic attraction … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Almonds, Angelica, Bakewell Tart, Bakewell Tart, Baking, Childhood memories, Christmas, Christmas decorations, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Eggs, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Frankincense, Glace Cherries, Gold, Humour, Icing sugar, Mary Cadogan, Memory, Myrrh, Nuts, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Religion, Sugar, Three Wise Men, Writing
Tagged Christmas, Three Wise Men
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The unbearable lightness of sponge….
The winsome Nigella, if winsome is the word, has never been high on my list of favourite cookery writers. Perfectly formed and polished to a high shine she glides like an iceberg, only the top third of her ever visible, … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, baking, Baking, cake, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Egg Yolk Sponge Cake, Eggs, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Icing sugar, Nigella Lawson, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, raspberries, Recipes, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing, yolks
Tagged baking, cake, Charybdis, egg yolks, Nigella, Scylla, sponge
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