Still life
Taking a break from the excitement of my book being announced to the press last month, and posting a small still life for you all. £25 Basic media 20x19cm contact me on...
Virtually Deptford, A Review of Kitcho in Greenwich
Kitcho is somewhat off the beaten track from Greenwich, beyond even Davy’s wine bar, (in fact virtually Deptford). We were ordering for a friend on a delayed bus, ‘shabu shabu’ she called (via text)...
Legend Press Announce Signing Helen & the Grandbees
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/legend-bags-warm-and-poignant-morrall-debut-1102076# Alex Morrall, author of Helen and the Grandbees Legend Press has bagged a “warm and poignant” debut novel...
Dessert was definitely going to commence – a review of Crol&Co. SE1
I discovered Crol & Co two years ago when I trundled past on the bike (a gift from my husband) determined to work out how to get to the office on it in about 2hours; indicating by thinking...
Photo for the painting
Original photo for watercolour of Donkeys In Ethiopia Everything about this photo said, paint it in watercolour!
Frosty Sunrise, (an unseasonable review of Oxleas Wood)
Oxleas Wood. I discovered Oxleas Wood when I had the madcap idea that the first weeks of January were a good time to get up on a Sunday morning in the frost to see a sunrise. (These things...
Tall Glasses
Poem First published in Psychopoetica Alex Morrall Stained Glasses
Unexpected, Originally Published by Smith’s Knoll
Unexpected, Poem by Alex Morrall
Pictures on their side
Apologies if you are looking on a desk top and seeing squint pictures. You'd think it was as easy as switching the pictures around, but it turns out that this messes them up on a tablet or phone....
Cabrera Review, SE12
We’d heard good things about the steak in Cabrera in Lee and following the demise of CAU (although we always preferred Buenos Aires) there was room for steak in our lives. Not only that... there is...
My Paintings
Canary Wharf Clouds
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A Few More Of My Blog Posts
A review of Koy SE3
Finally, ownership has been taken of CAU the impressive (triple?) fronted building facing the heath with absolutely everything going for it except for apparently the occupancy of a restaurant that will not eventually go under. It’s now a Turkish restaurant and at the...
A review of Little Sparrow Tea
I may be known as a coffee shop blog, but the reality is that I’m much more of a tea snob. There are many things that annoy me about tea, and you may be practising some of them yourself, so I am declaring this a free-tea-opinion site, and state - NO! Earl Grey was...
“Things haven’t been the same” A Review of post-lockdown walks in SE London
It’s fair to say, things haven’t been the same lately. Summers are usually a feast of street food; “oh, we’ll diet tomorrow (assuming there’s enough money in the bank for baked beans) restaurant trips“ and ”I haven’t seen that flavour gin before, that counts as a...
“Stocked with all sorts of things that a home-cook might want to buy.” Charlton and Blackheath’s Expo International Supermarket
So you might have noticed, Expo International Supermarket as you drove along Charlton Road recently, partially because of its load up of kitchen roll in its otherwise empty windows not all that long after a kitchen roll shortage Or you might have noticed the piled up...
Tapas by Takeaway, A Review of The Hill SE10
My recent cooking efforts are hitting a wall, everything’s made from scratch down to the pitta and the baked beans, and just recently I’m thinking, surely eat out food once a week can’t be that bad...And hence, this week I sampled for you, tapas by post (well, okay...
Update to publication date
Just to let you know, Helen and the Grandbees will now be published 28th October (can anyone else just not imagine October when the weather is like this?)B But you can still pre-order now!