August 2010

Doughnut, Donut Nectarines

August 31, 2010

I saw these for the very first time today. Have never seen or heard anyone coming across them before. I had to go into High Holborn to the divorce courts again, fourth time now, for a copy of my absolute, again…you see…I said things weren’t straight forward. I was walking along Kingsway just past the [...]

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Poaching Peaches

August 25, 2010

The amount of times I look at a pack of peaches, they can look so attractive with dark peachy colour, fooling you into a sense of ripeness and of course they’re not. If you’re lucky enough and they ripen at home they still won’t have the natural sugar they should have if they were tree [...]

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It Ain’t Over Till….

August 10, 2010

Looking at this photograph brings back the memory of 6 years ago, us one afternoon having a drink in a Hotel that sits on top of the hill in a town called Viana do Castelo, an old Portuguese style hotel with a big veranda overlooking the town below, the river and sea beyond. Every time [...]

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So Here We Go…

August 5, 2010

Well after being at the consulate from 10 until 5 practicing patience and a taxi ride to divorce courts, we have all the official papers in hand that are available for us to have. We have translations done, translations legalised by the foreign office, we have the consulate paper signed again by the divorce court [...]

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Something Is Telling Us Not To Get Married…

August 3, 2010

We have been bombarded with numerous omens telling us, we are just simply not suppose to get married. There was the disaster we had five years ago that meant postponing the wedding. There’s an old Steve Martin’s film, I think it’s called the Man With Two Brains, a quirky comedy, where Steve Martin’s plays a widower [...]

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Doughnut Peaches, Donut Peaches, UFO Peaches

August 1, 2010

I fell in love with these white flesh peaches seven years ago in Lake Guarda, Northern Italy on my first holiday with Bikerboy. In a picture perfect town called Limone with hilly cobble streets leading to the blue waters of the lake. They were sublime. White peaches have an amazing sweet fragrant flesh and these [...]

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Just Because I Haven’t Posted…

August 1, 2010

…doesn’t mean I having been cooking and photographing! If you’re a blogger you’ll understand when I say alongside the posts you publish you have these other half finished recipes you haven’t quite turned into entries. Today when commenting on another friend’s blog Feast with Bron about a cucumber recipe I meant to post this summer [...]

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