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Category Archives: Farming
burning question…..
Atavistic memories of the word “incinerator” recently started to shuffle around the corridors of my mind but the events surrounding that word remain in soft focus. There was a point in my childhood when several parts of our family shared a house … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, Bad Habits, Digital photography, Emotion, Farming, France, French countryside, Landscapes, Memory, Photographic Prints, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, digital photography, France, Humour, Incinerator, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, Rubbish collection, social networking, Vendee, writing
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playing it safe….
Living where and how we do acts as a prophylactic, a spiritual condom that shields us from the reality of the ever more imaginative madness of mankind. Growing old in peace is not an unreasonable expectation yet it is becoming an increasingly rare luxury and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Digital photography, Farming, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Photographic Prints, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged appearances, Boris Johnson, clear thinking, digital photography, Donald Trump, food, Food photographer, France, Gargoyles, Humour, molluscs, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, Richard Murdock, simple logic, social networking, writing
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egg tempera..ment
Like a sun tanned Humpty Dumpty, I am cracked and broken. As with H.D, I am basically a good egg but fragile. The last few days have provided me with a cogent and flawless argument against the extension of the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, Cookery Writers, Cooking, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, Farming, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, hypocrisy, Meat, Memory, Photography, photography course, Pie, tart, Uncategorized, Wine, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cooking, didactic, digital photography, food, Food photographer, food writers, France, head to tail eating, Humour, Humpty Dumpty, Offal, Photography, Photography course, restaurants, Spleen, venting of the spleen, writing, zealot
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DNR….
It has been a long time since I spent so much time in London. My mind’s pulse is at last returning to the slow, steady rhythm of our chosen home place. During the last week we have had two small … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Digital photography, Farming, France, French countryside, Landscapes, Photography, photography course, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Change, clear thinking, digital photography, DNR, farming, France, landscapes, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, simple logic, Vendee, War photographers, writing
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Making the beast with two backs…..making it do what?
When I first heard this phrase, apparently loaded with sexual euphemism, it only brought to mind my vain attempts to create animal silhouettes on a wall in the beam of a torch. As a schoolboy I was more than a … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, 70's, Accents, Art photography, Childhood, Childhood memories, Digital photography, Farming, France, French countryside, Google, Humour, Language, Photography, Sex, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged beast with two backs, Chambers English Dictionary, Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, definitions, eclair, Edingurgh, euphemism, foreplay, Miss Jean Brodie, mullet, Othello, sexual euphemism, social intercourse, Sunday Times, The Moor
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Beau laid……
Sitting by my computer I can see and hear the rain lashing against my window, making me remember the sun and blue skies of yesterday afternoon when the sun light seemed to saturate the colour of everything that it touched. … Continue reading
Posted in Art photography, Digital photography, Farming, France, French countryside, Landscapes, Landscapes, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged architectural photography, art, clear thinking, design, digital photography, France, hard edge, Industrial beauty, landscapes, natural beauty, outdoors, photographic media, Photography, prefabricated structures, simplicity, Vendee, writing
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Time to draw a line in the breadcrumbs
The sheep in the adjoining field are very keen on bread, in all its varied forms. They are keen on it because we, not being farmers but eaters of farmers’ produce, have fed them the bread, for which we have … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Cheese, Cooking, Digital photography, Excellence, Farming, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, hypocrisy, Italian food, lemons, Mediterranean food, Olive oil, Parmesan, Parmigiana Reggiano, pasta, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, sea salt, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged black pepper, bread crumbs, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, Cucina Povera, delicious confection, digital photography, Epiphany, farmers' produce, farming, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, lemon zest, mastering the art of french cooking, Mouli grater, pain cereale, pangritata, parmesan, Photography, Photography course, poor man's parmesan, Sacrifices, sheep, slimming diet, stale bread, The Alamo, writing
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Gimme a red courgette….
This is a fine example of the failure of language through intonation. One slip of a consonant and the farmer, formerly known as Vince, is staring at the curvy rear end of a rosey courgette cropper rather than the rude … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Digital photography, Emotion, Farming, France, French countryside, harmony, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Uncategorized, Weather, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, comfy shoes, digital photography, food, France, ill fitting shoes, landscapes, Language, living in the countryside, modest beauty, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, Red Corvette, streets of London, Vendee, writing
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I didn’t hear the news today, oh joy……
One of the stand out advantages that comes with living in the middle of nowhere is the visible lack of newspapers and news. “The News”, as in a newspaper or in a television or radio programme, has become a misnomer … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Dreams, Emotion, Farming, France, harmony, Humour, hypocrisy, Illusion, lifestyle, Memory, Reality, Sunday papers, Writing
Tagged "the big bang", clear thinking, France, Humour, local papers, News, newspapers, Ouest France, Photography course, Pyongyang, simple logic, social networking, technology, thermo nuclear war, Vendee Globe, writing, You Tube
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