Category Archives: Breakfast

thoughts while contemplating a sausage sandwich…

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Food,Photography & France

Deeply, madly and truly enervated; that’s me today. I rarely find a use for the “e” word as, happily, I am, for the most part, happy. At the moment, however, I am often not which is why I’m so utterly … Continue reading →

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chicken marmalade…..

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

I can never understand how jam, a confit of boiled fruit and sugar, can be known by the catchall of jelly and yet, in the USA, it apparently is. It’s the lack of care in defining the difference between a thick syrup, laden … Continue reading →

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getting up….

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

Warm scented early mornings with bare feet on smooth tiles are the longed for moments. Like childhood summer holidays each day is fraught with the fear of this contentment passing, of being returned to the pleasant from the sublime. The hot night has … Continue reading →

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..as I sat out one Spring morning….

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

Coffee in the peace of an early morning gives me that time to reflect and prepare myself for the day. The season has changed which means that this morning I enjoyed  that moment in the warmth of the early morning sun. … Continue reading →

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I’m glad the rain does not raineth every day..

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

…but I stifled a cry of pleasure as I awoke to the welcome drumbeat of heavy rain which sounded like a heavenly annunciation that I would not be spending my day, as a latter day Sisyphus, endlessly filling and emptying a wheelbarrow with … Continue reading →

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French rarebit…

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

It is said that a bad workman will blame his tools for bad workmanship. Not being a workman in any sense of the word, yet today finding myself at hard labour, I was more catholic in my apportioning of blame and included … Continue reading →

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full English……

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

Here’s wishing for a full English victory at Twickenham today….even though, in truth, I rejected the fry up for some very good Italian coffee and a French croissant:)

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Peanut envy…..

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Food,Photography & France

Occasionally I am led to rethink my personal food prejudices but the addition of “jelly”, a term that I have never fully come to terms with in this particular context, to peanut butter is not among those occasions. Such a sublime … Continue reading →

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saying the C word loudly…..CLUCK, OH CLUCKING CLUCK

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Food,Photography & France

I can well understand the clucking of hens a laying and I am in awe of the stoicism that prevents them from declaring more stridently.Just considering the concept of a life spent passing objects the size of one’s head ( … Continue reading →

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Peaches and dream..

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Food,Photography & France

Something as delicious as a bowl of peaches in the sun is to be sniffed at. The scent that rises from peaches drinking sunlight intoxicates as the flesh beneath their velvet covering softens and melts with the suffusion of nectar making the first … Continue reading →

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