Category Archives: Writing

The Elusive….you know ….the thing….

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Food,Photography & France

Over the last few days I have been trying to remember a word that forever slips my mind. To suggest that it is but one word that forever slips my mind would be an…another word which jostles for space in … Continue reading →

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getting wood..

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Food,Photography & France

The yellow flowers screamed spring to my frozen, soft focus consciousness. So much so that I set out clad in only a thick fisherman’s sweater, a heavy waterproof working jacket and gloves approved for arctic conditions yet, as the first … Continue reading →

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Cave Carnem…..

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

With regards to posting on this blog, I’ve been remiss of late. My mind has been full of pictures and my fingers appeared to have run out of ink. And yet, there I was staring at the blank white sheet … Continue reading →

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Badly drawn Roy would have ended in tears for Holbein….

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

Through the drawn curtains it was clear that dawn had drawn to a close some time ago. Drawing a deep breath, I drew back the duvet, fell out of bed and, drawing on what little remained of my heavily overdrawn … Continue reading →

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Mental Arithmetic……

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

I have no argument with this nomenclature save that it should serve as an umbrella title for all forms of ‘metics, ‘matics, ‘metrys and ‘bras. The quantity of water displaced by two fat men in a bath would only be … Continue reading →

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Pain…..

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

Le pain quotidien….give us this day our daily pain. The spinning signs on the pavements emblazoned with PAIN in fluorescent lettering still bring a smile to my face. It would indeed be a pain to be denied my daily bread … Continue reading →

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Lost in the dessert…..

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

I’m one of the easiest people in the world to talk to which means that it’s a rare waking moment when I and I are not chewing the fat which term is far from apposite as I and I is … Continue reading →

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“Looking….Seeing” a photography workshop

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

There are, currently, a plethora of wonderful workshops that specialise in overhead shots of beautifully propped and carefully prepared and presented food……………………………. but my upcoming workshop is not one of those. The programme that I’m proposing for this workshop is … Continue reading →

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On heat……

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

There is an incremental development in both success and pleasure, when cooking on open wood fires, that depends on the near divine alignment of fair weather, the freshest and finest of  ingredients and, above all, on the design, construction and … Continue reading →

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Kitchen art … a new series from The French Print House

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Food,Photography & France

This portrait of a frost rimed cabbage is the first in a series of prints that I will be producing and which will be available as a limited edition, signed giclée print from The French Print House. The series will … Continue reading →

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