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I’ll be the judge of that!
There are two schools of thought from our older generation regarding days gone by. Half of them hated life pre and post war (I would imagine life during war wasn’t so great either) and the other seemingly loved it.
My father would routinely tell my brother and I that we didn’t know […]
A bad start to 2008
If yesterday’s first morning back at work had one common thread it was the price of food. Every supplier that I spoke to told me that they were forced to put their prices up and it wasn’t going to get better anytime soon.
Last years horrendous weather has sent the price of […]
Editing gone mad….
Just bought the Deep Purple cd, 30: Very Best Of mainly for one reason, ‘Child in Time’ a classic track from the ‘In Rock’ album. I saw the classic Deep Purple line up play live at Knebworth many years ago and they have an incredible back catalogue of songs to choose from.
I have to […]
The Life of a Sauce Chef
For any young chef getting on the sauce section is the ultimate accolade, for years, skinny young chefs bust a gut as an entremetier followed by a sort of promotion with the same money to garde manger and all the time hating the sauce chef because they’ve got the coolest […]
The awards/results for the michelin guide 2008
How to ruin a bird survey
Sporting a mild hangover from the previous evening’s blues bash I decided to set about my back garden until normal blood levels were resumed and I could get in my car.
The summerhouse and greenhouse were given a pre-Spring clean and a couple of beds were dug over ready for planting. […]
Where the pastures would be new and much greener…
It’s 1993 and my time in Germany is coming to its natural end. Personally and professionally it had run its course, I was twenty-four and wanted to move up the kitchen ladder and I knew it wasn’t going to happen in a German kitchen.
Looking back it was probably the […]
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007