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Category Archives: hypocrisy
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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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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Miss Labelling 2013
The joy of stuffing one’s face with chocolate and champagne, which Valentine’s Day offers, performs as an unusual curtain-raiser to the austerity of Lent. Only the thorns on the stems of the garage bought roses seem appropriate, unless smart … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Arrogance, Champagne, Chocolate, Dante's Inferno, Digital photography, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fools rush in, Gastro virus, Humour, hypocrisy, Luck, photography course, Photography holiday, Shopping, Supermarkets, Uncategorized, Valentines Day, Writing
Tagged BSE, clear thinking, digital photography, e-coli, food, food photographers, glass bead game, horsemeat, Humour, knickers, labelling, Lent, Miss Label, Photography, Photography course, sack cloth & ashes, simple logic, Valentines, writing
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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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Shellshock
Loving to be by the seaside is all very well as long as one is not a crustacean. Being beside the sea is as much fun for them as being under the sea would be for us. How is it … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, aperitif, Art photography, Crayfish, Drinks, Excellence, Expectation, family, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Humour, hypocrisy, Indolence, Kir, langoustines, lifestyle, Lillet, Meat, Memory, Muscadet, mussels, Mussels, oysters, Pastis, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, prawns, Sancerre, sea urchins, seafood, Still life, Sunday, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
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Fast food……if you like fasting.
The peace and quiet of solitude is a great pleasure when it is chosen rather than imposed. Rain drops tapping on the window and the hum of the computer keep the silence at bay whilst ginger bread has done the … Continue reading
Another bad meal at Restaurant Television….
I’m beginning to experience a previously unknown frisson of excitement each time I turn on the television in the evening. We have entered a golden era of extended choice of viewing which bears an uncommon resemblance to an embossed leather … Continue reading
