A few posts back I shared Unlisted Memory, a short piece of fiction I’d written for a challenge AlisonTrollop ran on her blog. She’d asked for no more than 100 words and the prompt for the story was lists. Although the writing on my blog will always be predominantly food-related in some way shape or …
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Unlisted memory
Ever since I started this blog I’ve been trying to make sure I include posts that aren’t solely food-related. It probably says something about my gluttony and obsessions that I’m finding this much harder to do than I expected. Thankfully my friend Alison Trollop has started to place a monthly short story challenge on her …
The Thrill of What Might Be.
I sometimes fear I’ve boxed myself in a little with the name of this blog. Perhaps it should be ‘David in the kitchen, with a desk in the corner for when he wants to write about something other than food’. Writing a blog was something I’d wanted to do for a long time and taking …
Now doesn’t feel like the time for abstemiousness
Everywhere I look at the moment I’m seeing references to #dryJanuary or #veganuary. Even to the extent that spellcheck just found veganuary for me when I misspelt it. If ever there were frequency illusions I didn’t want to be happening at the moment, it’s these. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against the principles …
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My phone is having more fun than I am.
Our phones met across a crowded room. They reached out, shared memories and in a matter of moments were having the relationship which should have been ours. Somehow that’s the way of things these days, a world we’ve become willing but unknowing participants in. Each shrinking into of our own spaces, counting friends, loving likes, …
Writing prompts
As much as I enjoy putting this blog together, I do sometimes struggle with knowing what to write about. Sometimes I’ll sit down with a clear idea in my head and the words come fairly easily, other times it’s with a hope of inspiration but a realisation that Twitter or Spotify may soon distract me. …
I went back into a coffeeshop.
I went back into a coffeeshop last week for the first time in about four months. That’s back in as to actually order a coffee, sit down, sip, savour and finally leave feeling that perhaps the world isn’t quite such a bad place after all. Strictly speaking, it wasn’t my first time back across a …
My Saturday baking
Some days are for full-blown baking projects, others are more a case of checking what you’ve got in the kitchen, then deciding what to bake. Today is straddling both camps. We have another birthday coming up in the house and I’m back on cake making duty. This one defiantly falls into the project camp. A …
Going back to Thurcroft
If these last strange three months have taught me anything it’s just how important the senses are, even when you’re not necessarily using them. How just the thought of a smell, a taste or the feel of something can bring back memories, taking you to a time or place you’d thought long forgotten. Much of …
Saturday afternoon in the garden.
Saturday afternoon and I’m sat in the garden having a first attempt at alfresco writing. Things have been a bit thin on the blog front recently so I thought I’d have a bit of a catchup. I didn’t get around to any writing for a few days after my last post, then I had to …
David in the kitchen. 