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WTF…..
I was following my list religiously. The washing tabs, washing up liquid and several other household items were in the trolley, their names dutifully ticked off on my list which is less of an aide memoire and more of a … Continue reading
Posted in 2019, Humour, Language, Uncategorized
Tagged accident, comedy, Humour, PA system, podcasts, Richord Pryor, Roger Stowell, Shopping, Supermarkets
28 Comments
Oh no…he’s going to be political!
Oh no, he’s not! There is little point in continuing with the pantomime refrain as any political convictions that I have, have had or might have in the future are invariably based on emotions rather than political nous ( I’m sure that nous … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Bakewell Tart, Baking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Humour, Language, Photographic Prints, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Arrogance, baking, clear thinking, Commercial radio, cooking, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, LBC, Mrs. Bucket, Photography, Photography course, Referendum, simple logic, social networking, writing
42 Comments
Memento Sorry..
As momentum gathers to pull up the drawbridge and lower the portcullis against the marauding bands of the Unenglish beating a path to our gates, the burning question on the lips of each and every Daily Mail journalist and … Continue reading
Posted in 2016, Art photography, Digital photography, France, Humour, hypocrisy, Language, Photographic Prints, Photography, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged clear thinking, Daily Mail, digital photography, Foreigners, France, Humour, Immigration, Integration, Photography, Photography course, Reg Dwight, social networking, writing
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chicken marmalade…..
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
Posted in 2015, Apricot jam, Breakfast, Chicken, Cooking, Digital photography, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Grape jelly, Humour, Jam, Language, Photography, Poultry, Roast Chicken, Sugar, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged apricot jam, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, digital photography, etymology, food, Food photographer, France, Humour, jelly, palate, Photography, simple logic, social networking, 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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An audience of one…
I am unaccustomed to public speaking. Even the simplest public address takes its toll. The very act of standing up before a sea of silent anticipation, even if that sea is a tiny inlet of family and friends, has the … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, buffalo mozzarella, Cheese, Digital photography, Emotion, Excellence, Expectation, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Humour, Language, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, tomatoes, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Anticipation, audience of one, buffalo mozzarella, clear thinking, critical audience, crumpled sheets, dampness, digital photography, Fear, Food photographer, greasepaint, Humour, PC, Photography, Photography course, Public speaking, social networking, Stuttering, The roar of the crowd, Unaccustomed as I am.., Vocabulary, writing
50 Comments
One fine morning…..not
I, like Caesar before me, walked out into the ruins of what was, but yesterday evening, a garden in the full pomp of June flowering. On surveying the flattened, flowerless, green mayhem Caesar would have addressed his trembling gardeners in … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Art photography, Bad luck, Emotion, Garden, Gardening, Humour, Language, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, summer, Weather, Writing
Tagged bad weather, Caesar, clear thinking, destruction, digital photography, France, gardens, hail caesar, Hail storm, Humour, misty morning, natural beauty, outdoors, Photography, Photography course, snails, social networking, tyranny, writing
36 Comments
Nobody hears an apple scream…..
Had the Swiss version of apple ducking taken place in the present “caring” climate, William Tell’s son would have been whisked away by Social Services before you could say “Please, Daddy, stop firing arrows at my head”. The Swiss, with … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, apple crumble, apple tart on puff pastry, apples, baked apples, baking, Caroline Conran, Cookery Writers, Cooking, crumble, desserts, Digital photography, Excellence, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, France, Fruit, Granny Smith apples, Humour, Language, Molasses, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, puff pastry, Recipes, Sugar, tart, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged American Constitution, apple ducking, arrow ducking, baking, Charlton Heston, clear thinking, cookery books, cooking, delicious confection, demerara, desserts, digital photography, food, Food photographer, France, fruit, General Custer, Humour, Je mange bien tous les jours, Little Big Horn, Moses, Oxymoron, Photography course, Recipes, Social Services, sugar, sweet pastry, Swiss humour, vanilla, William Tell, writing
54 Comments
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, 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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A cute accent…..
Corn Flakes have appeared in my life again after many years absence. I had them for breakfast this morning, admittedly in a sort of de- constructed, self conscious “foodie” way, but they were very good and served to reawaken childhood … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Accents, Breakfast, Cereal, Corn flakes, food, Food and Photography, Food photographer, Honey, Language, Photography, photography course, Photography holiday, Writing
Tagged America, american accent, Breakfast, Camerahols, Cereals, clear thinking, Corn Flakes, digital photography, dried cranberries, English speaking, fairy story, food, Food photographer, Humour, Intonation, Language, Norman Rockwell, Photography course, Pronunciation, simple logic, social networking, southern accent, spoken intonation, writing
55 Comments
Food, Photography & France 