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on a round trip…
The seemingly endless summers of my childhood have made a welcome return. Maybe not the very same ones, but there are moments when a particular combination of sensations takes me clearly back in time. I have found that the station … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, Childhood memories, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Memory, peaches, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, cool, digital photography, endless summer, fizzy drinks, food photographers, France, Shakespeare, sherbet, social networking, Sting, Summer, Vendee, writing
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when first we flatten to deceive…
At this time of year Nature conspires with men to produce a contrariness in the flattened versions of some stoned fruit. A peach is a peach when it is suggestive; when its curves make one smile with greedy lust; when the … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Baking, cake, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, peaches, Photography, summer, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, flat peaches, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, jolies fesses, natural beauty, nature, palate, Peach Melba Squares, peche d'enfer, Photography, Pink Lady Photography Competition, recipe, social networking, Summer, writing
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Summer thoughts…
The laziness of summer days can be deliciously enervating. Only the bees are immune to this lassitude. August brings the humming noise of quietness to the garden which means that the last delinquent fledglings of this year are preparing to leave. In the … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Baking, buffalo mozzarella, Cheese, Cooking, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, Fruit, Mediterranean food, Memory, Peach Tart, peaches, Photography, photography course, puff pastry, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged baking, clear thinking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, natural beauty, nature, outdoors, palate, Photography, Photography course, simple logic, Summer, sweet pastry, Vendee, writing
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a little peach on peach action…..
Pêche de Vigne, as a name, would not be out of place on a burlesque billboard.The annual appearance of the flat peach is an event to which I look forward and by which I have never been disappointed. Before moving … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, peaches, peches de vigne, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Photoshop, Retouching, Still life, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, delicious confection, digital photography, flat peaches, food, Food photographer, France, Frequency retouching, Inert gases, natural beauty, peach, peach family, peche de vigne, Peches de vigne, Photography, Photography course, Summer, Vendee, writing
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Peaches and dream..
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
Posted in 2014, Breakfast, Digital photography, Dreams, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Garden, Mediterranean food, peaches, Photography, photography course, Sex, Still life, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Adam and Eve, affair, Breakfast, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, natural beauty, nectar, Peachiness, Photography, Photography course, Summer, writing
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Clinging on in heavy syrup….a wet dream
On most nights I have a dream and, although in my waking moments I have begun to forget everyone and everything’s name, I very often retain a clear image of some tiny fragment of each night’s unconstrained meanderings. This morning’s memory … Continue reading
Posted in 2014, Bad Habits, Childhood, Childhood memories, Digital photography, Dreams, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Humour, peaches, Photography, photography course, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Boarding School, clear thinking, Cling peaches, Cling peaches in syrup, digital photography, dreams, Evaporated milk, Food photographer, Humour, Photography, Photography course, Privacy, Tinned fruit, Tuck boxes, writing
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It’d take more than an apple to tempt Adam…
Given the choice of watching paint dry or onions browning, I’d opt to sit on a terrace overlooking clear blue sea with a chilled glass of something delicious . I take this choice whenever I’m engaged in important, but time … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Baking, buffalo mozzarella, Cheese, Cookery Writers, desserts, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, Humour, Kitchens, Mary Cadogan, mash, Maxine Clark, Memory, Nuts, onions, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Pie, Pine Nuts, Recipes, Sex, strawberries, tart, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged Adam and Eve, baking, beast with two backs, Clear blue sea, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, home economist, Humour, Laocoon, Mary Cadogan, Maxine Clark, Photography, Recipes, Sex manual, Southwark Bridge Road, Studios, synapses, Toreadors, woody Allen, writing
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The rod that I’ve attached to my back…
..is particularly uncomfortable on a hot day such as this. There is enough clay in the feet that keep me upright, and uptight, on my lofty soap box, to make posh terracotta pots from which everyone can eat their budget … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, desserts, Digital photography, Emotion, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Fruit, harmony, Humour, hypocrisy, Panna Cotta, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Recipes, summer, swimming pool, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, delicious confection, digital photography, feet of clay, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, hypocrisy, natural beauty, Panna Cotta, Recipes, social networking, swimming pool, Vendee, writing
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The Colour Violette…
On the way to La Rochelle there is an Oasis, set in a shady clearing by the roadside, that is only open for the summer months. L’Oasis is a shack, the open side of which is filled with trays overflowing … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, anchovies, apricots, Art photography, artichokes, aubergine, Cooking, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, French countryside, pasta, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Shopping, spaghetti olio aglio, summer, Vegetables, Vendee, Writing
Tagged artichauts poivrades, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, goat cheeses, Je mange bien tous les jours, natural beauty, nature, Oasis, Patois, photographic media, Photography, Photography course, rocket salad, Spring, summer fruit, Vendee, Vendeen Patois, writing
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….through the cooking glass …
As with Alice, the reverse can be, and often is, the truth. The real joy lies in the contents of the cooking glass passing through the cook. Sadly there is no clear reference as to how much joy can be … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, baking, Cheese, Cookery Writers, Cooking, desserts, Drinks, Eggs, Elizabeth David, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, goat cheese, Hard boiled eggs, Humour, Olive oil, peaches, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, puff pastry, radishes, Recipes, sea salt, summer, tart, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vendee, Wine, wine, Writing
Tagged Alice in Wonderland, baking, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, eating well, Elizabeth David, food, Food photographer, food photographers, France, hard boiled eggs, hors d'oeuvre, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, literature, natural beauty, outdoors, Photography course, picnic, puff pastry, Recipes, sea salt, Summer Cooking, summer produce, sweet pastry, Through the Looking Glass, Vendee, Vendee coast, writing
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