First Name Terms with A Champagne named Colin
A review of Champagne and Fromage in Greenwich SE10 I'd just like to say, I'm on first name terms with a champagne called Colin. But when we pointed this 'silly name for a classy drink' out to the...
Brunch – actually lunch
A review of The Ivy, Blackheath Sometimes you don’t want the carbohydrate bomb and crowds that Gail’s has to offer when you fancy a last minute lunch in Blackheath. That’s what led me into the new...
The Most Important Meal of the Day
A review of Boulangerie Jade SE3 on the Blackheath Standard http://www.boulangeriejade.com/welcome I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. This...
Fun from the foodie festival,
My tickets to Blackheath foodie festival were courtesy of ABK-Beer Events sellers of beer and pretzels. So this is an odd blog to write... because I always think of you guys reading this to decided...
Booker Shortlisted Novelist book signing at the Age Exchange
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Just a couple of sketches from the original visit in Birmingham.. trying to work out what will catch my eye. These two pictures are from the same spot but pointing in different directions.
Telegraph pole
This is the view if you turn 90 degrees away from 'Sun After Rain'. It is the enormous blocks of flats in the distance that initially drew me to painting this site, but they have ended up as a 'by...
Venice isn't Local , but…
So, this is not a local food review, but having recently returned from an anniversary trip to Venice, here are some food photos to enjoy... Exotically dressed pasta, in Italian, rather than...
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“Shopping ain’t my bag” A Review of L’orchidea
“Shopping ain’t my bag” A Review of L’orchidea by blackheathcoffeeshops A Review of L'Orchidee in Westfield Shopping ain’t my bag, so you will not be shocked to learn that I have only just visited...
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A Few More Of My Blog Posts
I’ve been neglecting you
I know, I’m sorry. It’s been a couple of weeks. I’ve been on holiday in Sussex. It found the switch off button in my brain, but I don’t know where the switch on button is. Rest assured an August of Blackheath will find it out. In the meantime, please enjoy this photo...
“Dead Cultured”
A review of live streamed performances from ROH, Glyndebourne and National Theatre Lockdown has made me dead cultured like. So many theatres are offering ‘live at home’ performances, I now attend two to three plays, operas or ballets a week... and there’s no...
Some of the wonderful endorsements of ‘Helen & the Grandbees’ gathered by Legend Press
Breathtaking and moving, Helen and the Grandbees is a novel that bravely explores themes of familial discord, race and love in modern Britain. It is a book that immediately gripped me, compelling me to keep turning the pages well into the night. Morrall...
“Some artisan butters are just plain distraction from butter’s real magnificence..”
A review of Banquist delivering all elements of ‘Michelin star meals’ This whole stuck at home business means that I haven’t so much saved money exactly, as managed to stick to the budget we were always supposed to stick to. Just as I thought I could be on to...
“An unusually good coffee machine but yards away..” a review of camping in the postage stamp garden SE3
It’s been kind of warm lately, no? Kind of wake up in the middle of the night wondering how you will make it through August warm. And as flooding sunshine drowned out the bedroom I thought, this would have been better if I’d been camping. Now my garden is what is...
The Greenwich COVID testing site. An event to leave the house for!
After two days of convincing myself that my temperature was due to heat stroke, the sore throat to hayfever, the cough to asthma and the seeming inability to stand up and make a cup of tea was due to an early morning bike ride (or even burn out) it eventually occurred...