Do pop-in to a pop-up …

There is a (not-so-new-anymore!) food craze sweeping the country – the Pop-Up restaurant.  This is the idea that a chef, or restaurant will take over a temporary venue for a night or two and cook up a storm for the lucky diners.  I love these, there is a sense...

But it IS good for ducks and gardens …

All this rain rain rain was giving me the squelchy blues, until I looked through my green tinted spectacles and saw what it was doing for the plants.  There is apparently a reason that England is known as a “green&pleasant land”, and it’s not for...

Tricks of the Trade

Asparagus.  It’s loaded with vitamins, has supposed aphrodisiacal powers and is reputed to cure a hangover.   Entire festivals are devoted to it’s arrival.  People write reams in newspaper columns about the “joys of asparagus”. Am I missing...

Cake

Happily I am pretty overloaded with work right now, and as if that’s not enough, some of the jobs this week have involved enormous cakes!   Since seeing him live on stage, I can’t look at cake now without thinking of this genius sketch by the queen of...

Jamming with a new friend

Sometimes getting a project together requires a load of strangers agreeing to take some time out of their lives so that you can photograph them, with little more information than a vague explanation of an idea that popped into your head and may one day be printed in a...