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Category Archives: lifestyle
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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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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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 Uncategorized, Food and Photography, Photography holiday, Digital photography, Writing, Cooking, food, Nigel Slater, family, Vegetables, Cookery Writers, Meat, photography course, lifestyle, Food photographer, hypocrisy, Humour, Art photography, Excellence, Excess, Advertising, Illusion, Health, Shopping, Supermarkets, 2013, Cutlery
Tagged yoghourt culture, simple logic, social networking, clear thinking, food, cooking, digital photography, writing, Humour, cookery books, Real food, Advertising, Lies, anally retentive, Enigma, kitchens, kitchen gadgets, kitchen utensils, packaged food, fresh food, order, disorder, processed food, Sunday Times, Specious argument, Healthy eating, Rich and poor, Gideon bible, cookery writers, nigel slater, magazine editors, farmers markets, enigma machine
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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 2013, Art photography, Bad Habits, desserts, Digital photography, Emotion, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Health, Illusion, lifestyle, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, raspberries, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, Cold, Cold hands, delicious confection, Expectation, food, Food photographer, food photographers, Honey, Humour, nature, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, Photography holiday, Procrastination, Raspberries, Tolerance, writing
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One fine morning….
A grey morning found me cutting firewood behind the house. The squeak of an old barn door opening announced the arrival of Annie, one of our neighbours. Annie and her husband Remy have raised Charolais beef cattle for the last … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Broth, Cooking, Cuisine bourgeoise, Digital photography, Emotion, Farming, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, friendship, Health, leeks, lifestyle, New Year, onions, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Soup, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Weather, Writing
Tagged Caribbean, food, food photographers, France, Guadeloupe, Holiday, Photography, travel, vacation, writing
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