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The Best Fish and Chips in England
I eat fish and chips more than I should – more than I should because often as not they’re a bit disappointing. However I’d gladly eat them a good deal less often if whenever I did eat them it was … Continue reading
The Golden Hour
Photographers and cameramen love dawn light. The hour around dawn is often referred to as ‘the golden hour’, similarly the hour around sunset. However of the two I tend to find dawn more powerful. Partly this is because, these days, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bali, dawn, living with your camera, photography, Sussex, the golden hour, winter
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The World Anew
Seven or eight years ago I spent a few weeks in Pakistan and India. We travelled there, first and foremost, so we could attend two friends’ wedding in Lahore. There was something about the intensity of the experience that made … Continue reading
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Tagged From Our Own Correspondent, frost, Sussex, travelling with my camera, Varanasi, weald
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Why Would Anyone Be a Baker?
When I started making Our Daily Bread, a couple of years ago now, I had thought of using the blues as a metaphor for baking – bread has three essential ingredients (flour, water, salt – and the natural yeasts found … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, baking courses, Bodiam, bread, bread courses, high Weald, Lighthouse, Lighthouse Bakery, Liz Weisberg, Nappy Valley, Rachel Duffield, Sussex
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If the Ash Trees Die so Will Part of Us
I love the English landscape. In particular I love the landscape of the Weald. It’s sinuous and sweeping yet still intimate. It’s strong without being rugged. It’s ancient without being primal or unshaped. It bears the mark of human hands, … Continue reading
An English Fish Soup
Almost every nation with a tradition of sea fishing can boast a good fish soup or stew. Almost every nation, it seems, except England. If there’s a single dish that captures the flavour of Provence it’s surely Bouillabaisse – well … Continue reading
A Home for the Soul and a Fire for the Imagination
When it comes to the tree house what I get asked most is “Who is it for? You or Luca?” It’s a good question. First and foremost I’ve long wanted Luca to have a space he feels is his. For … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Ransome, childhood, General John Stark, imagination, imaginitive play, Sussex, Swallows and Amazons, tree house, treehouse, weald
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Support Your Local Greengrocer
Supermarkets are damned clever. They spend a lot of time and a lot of money researching our shopping habits and have figured out that we can only track half a dozen prices at any given time. One of these is … Continue reading
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Tagged Burwash, Christopher Leach, Etchingham, expensive supermarkets, fruit and vegetables, greengrocer, Hawkhurst, Hurst Green, Lamberhurst, local greengrocer vs supermarket, price comparison, Sainsbury expensive, shopping locally, Stonegate, Sussex, Ticehurst, Wadhurst
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Apple and Green Tomato Chutney
One of my favourite old Sussex terms is ‘brencheese friend.’ A brencheese or ‘bread and cheese friend’ is a friend who’ll stick with you whether you feed him a feast or share with him your simplest provisions. Likewise a true … Continue reading
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Tagged apple and green tomato chutney, apple and green tomato pickle, Ashydown Forrester, bread, brencheese friend, Brightling, Brother Michael, Burwash Rose, cheese, chutney, chutney recipe, high Weald, High Weald Dairy, Lord of the Hundreds, Mad Jack Fuller, pickle, recipe, Stonegate, Sussex, Sussex Dialect, Traditional Cheese Dairy
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