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Category Archives: Drinks
These latish things remind me of you…
” A bowl of peaches that are slowly ripening, A simple salad on a summer evening….” These and other equally delicious things remind me of you, Summer. I’m impatiently awaiting your arrival; my mind is filled with memories of our … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Caviar, Childhood memories, Christmas, Digital photography, Drinks, Expectation, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Humour, lifestyle, Lumpfish, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Uncategorized, Weather, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, frisson of excitement, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, last tryst, Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, outdoors, Photography course, Picnics, plastic cups, Salad, sand filled sandwiches, sandwiches, Snow leopard, Summer, Summer food, These foolish things, warm wine
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Soft centred Sundae…..
There is such a silence this Sunday morning. Even the birds are in quiet contemplation. The soft hum of the computer and the click clack of the keyboard is all that breaks the hush. Once it would have been the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Food and Photography, Photography, France, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Writing, Cooking, food, summer, desserts, baking, cake, Fruit, photography course, Baking, Food photographer, Les Saints de Glace, St.Mamert, St.Pancrace, St.Servais, Bad luck, Art photography, Sugar, Expectation, Miracle, Sunday, 2013, coffee, muffin, oranges
Tagged Casting a clout before May is out, Sunday morning, Peace and quiet, Quiet contemplation, Les Saintes Glaces, Cake and coffee, Upside down cake, derrieres, candied fruit slices, muffins
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Ladies who lunch..Chez Papa..
Uncovering treasure is not an accurate science. I say this with an authority that I do not possess, as treasure and I are rarely, if ever, seen together or even spoken of in the same breath. The same can be … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Baking, Bistro, Choc ice, Chocolate, Coffee, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, desserts, Digital photography, Drinks, Excellence, Expectation, family, financiers, fireplace, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, friendship, harmony, Humour, Kitchens, Noa grape, perfect day, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Uncategorized, Vines, Vineyard, Wine, Writing
Tagged sweet pastry, modest beauty, mastering the art of french cooking, clear thinking, nature, food, travel, delicious confection, France, restaurants, landscapes, loire wine, cooking, digital photography, writing, Humour, Food photographer, Je mange bien tous les jours, Cuisine bourgeoise, Pays de Loire, Wine, Saumur Champigny, Muscadet, Ladies who lunch, Vine cuttings, Grillades, boudin, La bonne table, Sarments, Seven Dwarves, Restored, french countryside
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Bottle in a boat…….
I don’t know whether one can have enough of a good thing. Only people with an awful lot of that good thing are in a position to give an answer. Clearly, the state of having had enough of something very … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Digital photography, Drinks, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, photographic media, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, travel, vacation, Photography course, France, digital photography, writing, Humour, Holiday, Food photographer, Ships, Channel ferries, Caen, Portsmouth Harbour, Night crossing, Trains and boats and planes, Full body cavity search, China white, Mule, Noilly Prat, rough beauty, horse and carriage, transportation
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Rigoletto in his christening robe…
Last week I had to undertake the arduous task of tasting Rigoletto, a new cuvée at Prieuré La Chaume, whilst talking to Christian Chabirand, from whose loins Rigoletto sprang, about shooting a portrait of the new born in his christening outfit. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Vendee, Vines, Vineyard, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged Chardonnay, clear thinking, cuvee, delicious confection, digital photography, Food photographer, France, loire wine, natural beauty, outdoors, Photography course, red wine, Rigoletto, Spring, structured reds, Vendee, Vineyards, Vix, Wine tasting, writing
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The birth of Rigoletto…
In just a few days 8.30 will be the new 7.30. The winter is dead, long live….that doesn’t work. Hurrah for the theoretical arrival of summer even if your power lines are under 10ft of snow or the rain is … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Celebration, Digital photography, Drinks, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, grapes, Landscapes, perfect day, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Rigoletto, Vines, Vineyard, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, natural beauty, misty morning, outdoors, red wine, Photography course, France, loire wine, digital photography, literature, writing, Humour, Food photographer, Rigoletto, vineyard, cuvee, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romantic poets, Summer time, Wordsworth, host of golden dafffodils, Vendeen vignoble, opium addict, golden daffodils, climate, ancient mariner
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Hot chocolate virgin…
This country drips chocolate from every pore. In provincial France, good chocolatiers are nearly as ubiquitous as shoe shops, which only sell grotesque shoes, opticians and dodgy hair dressers upon which trio the French economy appears to depend. The illusion … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Apricot jam, Art photography, baking, Baking, Brownies, Digital photography, Dogs, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Hot choclate, Humour, perfect day, Poodles, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, baking, Breakfast, Brownies, Chic, chocolat chaud, Chocolate, chocolate brownies, Cocoa, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, Hot Chocolate, Humour, La Rochelle, Les Francaises, Poodles, writing
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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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