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Category Archives: Excess
Tongue tied…..
Being able to make our thoughts public, through “blogs” or “tweets”, seems to have become a very efficient muzzle. The greater the number of people who read our, ineradicable, words the more cautious we have to become. We are very … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Baking, Cooking, Emotion, Excess, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fools rush in, friendship, harmony, Humour, hypocrisy, Illusion, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Sobriety, Writing
Tagged baking, blogging, clear thinking, digital photography, disagreement, food, France, freedom of speech, Humour, muzzled, Photography course, political correctness, shackled, simple logic, social networking, writin, 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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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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Kiss and Make up……
Being nearly June, I’m surprised to still be lighting the fire at the end of each day. As the nights are still cold I find that we are continuing the winter ritual of watching television, in the warm glow of … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Digital photography, Excess, fashion, France, French countryside, harmony, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Vendee, Weather, Writing
Tagged $200, 000, Arrogance, clear thinking, digital photography, Excess, farming, France, french countryside, landscapes, Las Vegas, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, peaceful countryside, Photography, Photography course, simple logic, spoilt, spreading shit, Waste, writing
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You can tell a book from its cover..
I’ve recently come to the opinion that we’re much more successful at preserving vegetables than we are at preserving youthful looks. In that half land of waking, this morning, the imagined strains of a childhood song, “With a face like … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, anchovies, Arrogance, Art photography, beans, capers, Digital photography, Doggerel, Dreams, Emotion, Excellence, Excess, Flat parsley, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Illusion, Italian food, Obsession, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, preserved lemons, Reality, Recipes, Tuna, Writing
Tagged Facio maxillary surgery, Illusion, luxury hotels, Plastic surgery, Preserved fruit, Preserved lemons, Preserving, search for youth, tonno fagioli
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I’ll be yours in buttons and bows…..
I had a favourite aunt who was firm in the belief that men put on dresses when they wanted to appear really important, and it appears that the clergy are keen followers of my aunt’s views. The Ku Klux Klan … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Art photography, baking, cake, Digital photography, Excellence, Excess, feather, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, hypocrisy, Icing sugar, Illusion, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Religion, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, buttons and bows, cake, clear thinking, Clergy, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, drabness, food, food photographers, hoops of fire, Humour, Icing sugar, incontrovertible proof, Ku Klux Klan, movers and shakers, photographic media, Pontifical, Religion, Self importance, simple logic, State Circus, writing
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Bottom draw, bottom line…
There’s an unfortunate link between “anally retentive” and “bottom draw”. Both suggest neatness, order and a dislike of “shit” all over the place. A place for everything and everything in its place. Nigel Slater, #realnigelslater, tweeted yesterday that a draw … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Advertising, Art photography, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Cutlery, Digital photography, Excellence, Excess, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Health, Humour, hypocrisy, Illusion, lifestyle, Meat, Nigel Slater, photography course, Photography holiday, Shopping, Supermarkets, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Writing
Tagged Advertising, anally retentive, clear thinking, cookery books, cookery writers, cooking, digital photography, disorder, Enigma, enigma machine, farmers markets, food, fresh food, Gideon bible, Healthy eating, Humour, kitchen gadgets, kitchen utensils, kitchens, Lies, magazine editors, nigel slater, order, packaged food, processed food, Real food, Rich and poor, simple logic, social networking, Specious argument, Sunday Times, writing, yoghourt culture
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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 2013, Art photography, Bad Habits, baking, cake, Cheese, Cooking, Digital photography, Drinks, Emotion, Excess, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Health, Pears, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Plums, Poire William, Roquefort, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
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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