My Miscellany

foraging male chaffinch I've had a fancy for a while to make gougère, but I couldn't remember what on earth we used to hav...

I still don't know what these "Three Men in a Boat" were doing - by the time I got as far up the river as I had first seen the...

 This was originally meant to be a September birthday gift - but the initial leaves and ivy took so long that I re-scheduled it as a...

I was sick all over Christmas and well into the New Year, and since I got back to work the mornings have either been dark or dismal, if not ...

We went for a walk on Christmas Day morning, to help give us an appetite for dinner after our Pavés à la Canelle for breakfast (Cinnamon Cob...

Today was one of those mornings I went to the post office in the centre of town and walked back out to work...some quick snaps along the way...

It turned into another dull, cold, grey damp day. But as I was going to work there was a lovely sunrise glow, so I took a few photos. The o...