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Category Archives: Bad Habits
Pimping my nuts….
It’s so easy to lose control. I am bitterly aware that one can have enough of a good thing, and it was clear that my nuts were starting to play too big a part in my life. There is a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Food and Photography, Photography, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Writing, food, baking, Recipes, photography course, Nuts, Almonds, Food photographer, Excellence, Excess, Sugar, Obsession, Bad Habits, Health, Diagnosis, 2013
Tagged social networking, food, delicious confection, digital photography, writing, Humour, baking, Food photographer, Recipes, Nuts, Pimping, soy sauce, surfeti of lampreys, calling a halt, obsession, tweet, tweeting, almonds, agony aunt
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Having a breakdown….
My specialist subject is not “The Workings of the Internal Combustion Engine”. This became apparent when, after pushing all the knobs and turning all the keys marked “Start”, nothing happened save the creation of a telling noise that had heads … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Bad Habits, Digital photography, Emotion, Expectation, Falling Down, France, Humour, Illusion, Language, lifestyle, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged bonnet, Breakdown, breakdown truck, bureaucracy, cars, clear thinking, derision, digital photography, do as you would be done by, France, hood, Humour, Instruction manuals, Insurance company, internal combustion engine, J.K.Rowling, Kafkaesque, La Belle France, Le Hexagon, little bo peep, locomotion, manuals, Mastermind, Mental breakdown, mental breakdowns, Owners' manuals, patience, Photography course, simple logic, Specialist subject, Tolkien, travel, waiting, writing, Zen and the art of Motorbike repair
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Something for the weekend, Sir?
A childhood of single sex boarding schools, followed by a career in any sex you like photography, has cleanly excised any sexual prejudice that in a less testing environment might have flourished. Doing unto others as you would have them … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Bad Habits, Cheese, Childhood, Childhood memories, Digital photography, Drinks, Fino, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Horse meat, Humour, hypocrisy, lifestyle, Meat, Memory, Mimolette, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Pornography, Sex, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Boarding School, Bodily fluids, clear thinking, digital photography, Fino sherry, food photographers, France, Hamburgers, horsemeat, Humour, Internet, Lasagne, Mimolette cheese, Photography, Photography course, Prejudice, Sensitivity, sexual prejudice, society, writing, yoghourt culture
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Putting my fingers in my ears and going “la,la,la…..”
My mind is warming up at the same slow rate as the bathroom, less concerned with writing than with steeling itself for the discomfort from frozen hands that will surely come with the imminent and essential cutting of fire wood. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Food and Photography, Photography, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Writing, food, desserts, photography course, lifestyle, Food photographer, raspberries, Art photography, Expectation, Illusion, Emotion, Bad Habits, Health, 2013
Tagged food photographers, clear thinking, nature, food, outdoors, delicious confection, Photography course, Photography, writing, Humour, Cold, Cold hands, Tolerance, Procrastination, Raspberries, Honey, Expectation, Food photographer, Photography holiday
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If you like a firm pear, sir..
Those innocent words dropping from the lips of a helpful assistant in a fruit shop in the country town of Wallingford are still clear in my mind. Very little else of those heady days, in the early 70′s, is clear … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Food and Photography, Photography, France, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Writing, Cooking, food, Wine, baking, Fruit, photography course, Plums, Cheese, Pears, Food photographer, cake, Poire William, Art photography, Excess, Expectation, Drinks, Emotion, Bad Habits, Health, 2013, Roquefort
Tagged clear thinking, food, food photographers, France, Humour, mastering the art of french cooking, Passe Chassane, Pear & Roquefort, Photography, writing
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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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Soft prawn….
I was engaged in the dexterous removal of clothing from some beautiful prawns which action brought to my mind the name of Dan Greenberg, the author of “How to be a Jewish Mother”, but also the author of a small … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, 70's, Art photography, Bad Habits, Broth, Cooking, Dan Greenberg, Delacroix, Digital photography, Fish stock, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Marcel Duchamps, Memory, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Pornography, prawns, seafood, Sex, Tintoretto, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged classical paintings, victoria s secrets
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