Last Sunday a Michelin starred London chef posted a photo of his breakfast on twitter: a plain one-egg omelette, half a slice of dry toast, and a dollop of tomato ketchup on the side. Continue…
Food
How to eat a boiled crab
Choose your newspaper carefully. Then take a boiled crab and turn it over. Admire how its legs are not so different to those of the human (in the photo, obviously).
On vending machines & madeleines
There was something about a train timetable, memories and a cake. I recall slow progress, and frequent reference to the Collins Robert Dictionary. I wonder when it became impossible to mention a madeleine without also referring to Proust. Continue…
A squash obsession
The light has changed. It grows.
A Boston Winter Squash (8 days later)
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The breakfast news presenters discuss whether it is an Indian Summer. Girls are bare-legged outside as I put stockings on my squash.
A Boston Winter Squash
Autumn Lessons
I gave her four days in late April: digging up the lawn, building raised beds, painting raised beds, transporting compost, buying seeds, planting out, seeking obscure herbs, and spreading gravel. From those who were here before, I kept only the apple tree. In return my garden has given me a summer of flowers, courgettes, peas, tomatoes, rainbow chard, romaine lettuce, tsoi sim, landcress, beets, spinach beet, carrots, beans, squashes, strawberries, spuds, rhubarb, an extravagance of herbs, and a chilli.
Garden in mid-July
As Plato noted in the trial of Socrates “I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.” After twelve months of owning a garden, twenty four hours of reading around the topic, and a mere six months of erratic tending, I should know better than to share my learning. However, if you will humour me, these are my lessons; if only so that I remember them next year: Continue…
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