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Category Archives: Excellence
…putting a name to a beak.
In the still of this sunfilled early morning, there’s me and legion of small birds who are all making their particular peaceful noises, that I recognise but can’t put a beak to. Bees, so fat that they have no business … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, anchovies, Baking, Breakfast, capers, Cooking, Digital photography, Drinks, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, onions, oranges, pastry, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Provence, Recipes, summer, tart, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Weather, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged baking, bees, birdsong, Breakfast, clear thinking, cooking, crisp pastry, delicious confection, Eureka moment, food, Food photographer, France, Groundhog Day, Humour, Mediterranean food, morning coffee, natural beauty, olive oil, Photography, Photography course, Recipes, red wine, single bee, Summer morning, tomato sauce, writing
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….stoned and seeing red.
There is something iconic and primal about cherries. Apart from their perfect shape and colour, the true beauty of cherries lies in their ability to get stoned while I get juiced. The voluptuous simplicity of their shape and colour is seductive. … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, cherries, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Excess, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Sex, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Bigarreau cherries, cherry red, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, fruit, Je mange bien tous les jours, juiced, Photography course, pleasure, stoned, voluptuous, writing
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….through the cooking glass …
As with Alice, the reverse can be, and often is, the truth. The real joy lies in the contents of the cooking glass passing through the cook. Sadly there is no clear reference as to how much joy can be … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, baking, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Drinks, Eggs, Elizabeth David, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, goat cheese, Hard boiled eggs, Humour, Olive oil, peaches, Peachy, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, puff pastry, radishes, Recipes, sea salt, summer, tart, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, eating well, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, hard boiled eggs, hors d'oeuvre, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, literature, natural beauty, outdoors, Photography course, picnic, puff pastry, Recipes, sea salt, Summer Cooking, summer produce, sweet pastry, Through the Looking Glass, Vendee, Vendee coast, writing
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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 2013, Almonds, Bad Habits, baking, Diagnosis, Digital photography, Excellence, Excess, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Health, Nuts, Obsession, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged agony aunt, almonds, baking, calling a halt, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, Humour, Nuts, obsession, Pimping, Recipes, social networking, soy sauce, surfeti of lampreys, tweet, tweeting, writing
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Nobody hears an apple scream…..
Had the Swiss version of apple ducking taken place in the present “caring” climate, William Tell’s son would have been whisked away by Social Services before you could say “Please, Daddy, stop firing arrows at my head”. The Swiss, with … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, apple crumble, apple tart on puff pastry, apples, baked apples, baking, Blackberry, Caroline Conran, Cookery Writers, Cooking, crumble, Demerara, desserts, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Granny Smith apples, Humour, Language, Molasses, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, puff pastry, Recipes, Sugar, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged American Constitution, apple ducking, arrow ducking, baking, Charlton Heston, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, demerara, desserts, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, fruit, General Custer, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, Little Big Horn, Moses, Oxymoron, Photography course, Recipes, Social Services, sugar, sweet pastry, Swiss humour, vanilla, William Tell, writing
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I got the blues….
I had to go and check, and I can confirm that it’s OK. The sea is still blue, as is the sky, with a cleverly contrasting yellow for the ground. Whoever worked that one out is no fool, it gets … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Childhood memories, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, family, France, French countryside, harmony, Landscapes, Landscapes, Memory, perfect day, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Shine, summer, Summer holidays, Vendee, Weather, Writing
Tagged "Are we there yet?", blue sea, blue skies, clear thinking, digital photography, France, idyllic, landscapes, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, sandy beaches, Seaside, summer holidays, travel, vacation, Vendee, writing
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The writing’s on the wall….
And, whatever we think, that is where most writing is to be seen today. Hand writing is on the wane as wall writing waxes. Graffiti scratches the parts fountain pens can’t reach. We are now all writers because, through the gift … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Dreams, Excellence, France, French countryside, Humour, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, digital photography, Education, Graffiti, Humour, literacy, outdoors, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, simple logic, Street art, The 3 R's, TOWIE, writing
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