July 22, 2010
Sally Mann is showing at Photographer’s Gallery here in London at the moment.
Her photographs oftentimes leave me with a dual sense of eternity and ephemerality all at once. They have been lingering in my mind when pottering around the house for the last week or so.
May 1, 2010
I accidentally seem to be drifting away from ye old online journal, so I decided to remedy this troubling downward spiral by quickly taking some photographs. The peeky bunny up there on top of the Vermeer is a MyPaperCrane.
The house is smothered in sunlight these days and I am settling indoors for a spot of Miss Marple on the telly. One of the Geraldine McEwan ones I believe. I love her Marples merely for her sparkly gaze which makes her look like she knows secrets. Then I am planning to have an early night after watching The Bunker of the Last Gunshots; one of the really early Jeunet/Caro wonders. We have been raising by dawn a lot lately, to go to our kitchen gardens before the hens are let out in our home garden. That way I don’t have to worry about any sly fox coming to feast on my li’l ones when I’m not around. (They are supposedly notoriously active around dawn.)
April 2, 2010
March 29, 2010
The unbelievable passing of Elspeth Thompson has left me with such a heavy heart. She was a truly inspirational entity to me (and many others) and it somehow hurts to think that she would want to end her life. It makes me question my own life and even other people’s lives and what the point of them are, if one like hers was not worth living. But such is the nature of depression, I suppose; mysterious, cold and absorbing.
She showed humankind that the easy route is not always the best and it is certainly not the most interesting. She showed us that true beauty is timid and unforeseen.
Thank you Elspeth, for sharing your world through your writing. You will be sorely missed.
– From a fellow traveller and patron of that rocky road.
January 28, 2010
Remember how I told you a while back that my lovely little Ada was dreadfully poorly?
Well, after coming home from the veterinary surgery she has been laying all sorts of worrying things, such as completely shelless eggs and she has suffered a terrible ordeal from it all. But lo and behold; this is what she came up with this Monday! A perfect, beautiful, brown speckled, magic little gift. And on top of that she has been her happy self ever since. I can’t wait til the day my clever little giver retires from her egg laying and just keeps her energy and nutrition to herself. But in the meantime I am just happy to see her running around in the garden looking a bit like an aeroplane again!
Oh, and, completely unrelated to the above rantings, there’s now only three days left on the Specific Flavour January Sale, so if you are feeling like a bargain of the flavourful kind hop over here!
January 14, 2010
It is getting warmer here. We are starting to defrost. I have to admit, I was even a teeny-weeny happy to see rain today for a change, instead of snow. The girl in the top picture would certainly agree!
January 5, 2010
Goodday to y’all. I hope the new year is treating you alright. Some christmas tables and food.
Our kindest of hens, Ada, has been critically ill and has spent the last three days in a veterinary surgery; not fun. But on happier notes, she is now safely home with us again and we are hoping that she will recover soon. If you want to take advantage of some specific flavour sale goodness hop over here. The January Sale has started!
January 1, 2010
Thank you all for the encouraging emails and support you have given me this year. Wishing you a thrilling new year!
October 31, 2009
An agreeable family of pumpkins and squashes has found its way into my home this year as always; small ones
…and large.
It has been quiet lately here at the blog so a few images of the bygone week is in place.
It is autumnal as ever here in London and my travelling ways are filled with crumbling polychrome leaves.
It’s drizzling outside, the air is moist and raw, I have some of our late yellow cherry tomatoes drying in the oven and it shall be a warm night with mulled cider watching the flickering shadows of restless souls outside our window.
Happy Pumpkin Day!
October 2, 2009
The occurance of the Royal Mail strike makes my packages come in bundles these days. That is; I don’t receive any for a while, then suddenly I get a pile big enough to make it feel a bit like Christmas Day. Today was one of those days and in the pile was this box of truffles from Montezuma’s. It seems my sweet tooth is growing longer along with the days getting shorter so this was a very suitable arrival.
Montezuma’s has a good selection of vegan treats; just type in ‘vegan’ in their search box and you get many a handful of delicious options, such as this truffle collection. The Kirsch Cherries, Moondance pralines and chocolate dipped Orange Slices also look exceptionally intriguing and shall all have to be trialled one of these chilling October days.
Until then this rich, chocolate-y, but not-too-sweet ‘Sunrise’ spicy orange flavoured truffle shall do very fine thank you.
Have a sweet weekend my dears!
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hmm; tastes... different 
