Category Archives: food

How Not To

I like cooking. I like to think I’m not bad at it. But the machinery around cooking is, perhaps, a different bucket of eels…

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That Meal: A Poem

If I close my eyes I visualise How I metabolise Those pork pies And crunchy fries Frankly it’s pretty disgusting…

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Cabbages and Kinks #poetry #health

Ok so it’s chard not cabbage but it is green, it’s healthy and full of vitamins and grows easily in our South London micro climate. But I don’t eat enough. Greens. Never really did. The Archaeologist, contrarian that he was, … Continue reading

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Kia Ora Days eleven and twelve: three act town and flying south towards summer

Ok so the titles are getting a bit strained, some would say deliberately misleading (we aren’t flying after all) mainly because I’ve settled into a nicely complacent fug of limited adrenaline expenditure and fine eating. These two days capture us … Continue reading

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Kia-Ora days one and two glass bridges and a prickly pair

We made it. Me from London via Singapore and the Lawyer via LA and Tahiti from Lima. I brought us a mascot. We’re a wee bit dozy so decided on a walk around the Quay area. We found the university … Continue reading

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