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Pumpkins, fairy stories and recipes
"A fat round pumpkin is used both as a candlelit ghoul at All Hallows and as a fairytale stagecoach to whisk Cinderella to the ball" ...
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Seasonality - over there and down here
"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own." Charles Dickens On the left is the first picture in my new diary for...
Jan 3
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Art, food, the curriculum
"The great thing about making art about food is that it is all around you" The Tate I've been putting this topic off in my Food...
Oct 8, 2024
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Empty
"What is empty? It is the lack of a story… but you can always find a story." Wendy Woods Can you? I must say I'm struggling today, even...
Sep 15, 2024
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Soothing busyness; unexpected beauty
"Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." Lucille Ball This is today's painting from the Met...
Aug 24, 2024
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Nubbins
"something (such as an ear of corn) that is small for its kind, stunted, undeveloped, or imperfect; a small usually projecting part or...
Aug 23, 2024
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Napoleon cake - layers of meaning
"as each family makes it their own way, you’d be pressed to find two recipes that agree on what makes a perfect one." Deb...
Jul 14, 2024
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A decor book
"It's not just what's inside them that counts – books are also the underrated heroes of home décor." Bed Threads This is my next Lucky...
Jul 3, 2024
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Food for the soul - religion in the curriculum
"Our life is made by the death of others." Leonardo da Vinci I have been avoiding moving on through my food curriculum recently because...
Jun 15, 2024
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Boring? But I'll persevere
"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me." Dylan Thomas You've probably noticed that I've been a bit uninspired of late. Indeed my...
May 17, 2024
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Tablecloths
"A kid under a tablecloth insists he’s a ghost. A table underneath a tablecloth is, I guess, like the rest of us, only pretending to be...
May 16, 2024
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Detail
"Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail." Leonardo da Vinci A week or so ago now we went to the current Lume exhibition...
Apr 28, 2024
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Together, but separate
"United we stand, divided we fall." Aesop This is my Redstone Diary's photo for the week. The title underneath reads: "Anton Chekhov...
Mar 5, 2024
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Pretty in pink
"Pink isn't just a colour. It's an attitude too" Miley Cyrus Ten years ago on our last night in Beaucaire we dined in the restaurant of...
Feb 6, 2024
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After dinner temptations
"More research is needed, but if you are going to cut out snacks at any time of day, the late-night ones are probably the place to...
Jan 24, 2024
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Hidden secrets = magic
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Edouard Vuillard is rapidly...
Jan 18, 2024
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Finding joy on a very wet day
"Some people walk in the rain. Others just get wet" Roger Miller This the view from the window behind my computer. Well more or less. ...
Jan 8, 2024
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When the egg meets flour - a skill
"It is in Emilia (half of the now united Emilia-Romagna region) where the everyday act of hand rolling has been elevated into an everyday...
Jan 2, 2024
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It's summer - time for a warming bowl of soup!
"a soup with which to thaw a frozen soul." Nigel Slater Today is officially the first day of the Australian summer. In Gippsland -...
Dec 1, 2023
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Noble thistles
"The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive...
Nov 21, 2023
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