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Talking About HELEN & THE GRANDBEES at the Stratford Literary Festival

Last month, I had the opportunity to discuss Helen & The Grandbees at the Stratford upon Avon Literary Festival. This was a fantastic evening meeting some fabulous Warwickshire writers and hosted by Jo James (in the pic) Sadly, our technology failed… so here is a...
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My stories taught me about myself

(This article originally appeared in the Pebworth Piper) My need to leave London had been on my mind for a while. I was fatigued by London’s luxury towers and treeless plazas. It’s uptight tentacles tangled along every street and into my little Victorian cottage...
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The Tapas Room, Deptford – A Tiny Cavern of Delights

Little did we know that it was the end of tier 2, that in fact this tier was set to double, when we enjoyed a day off work to pretend to holiday in Deptford. We sat under the glow of a heater, making up for the tiny well-ventilated room, admiring the bottles, the menu...
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“If a treat is available it should be indulged,” Pre-lockdown Boulangerie Jade review

So many places in blackheath have been so good at their social distancing that we decided to do the ‘trip before lockdown’ experience, so long as we could be sure it was safe. Now, a ‘Trip Before Lockdown’ is a very special occasion and should not be undertaken...
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Review of Wisley Gardens… and environs

In June, we discovered the RHS gardens. Can’t remember why. Think I saw it on someone’s instagram. We packed fake fizz and I made an artichoke and thyme pizza and apple cake and we ventured out into the newly unlocked world, wondering if the toilets would be closed...
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HELEN & THE GRANDBEES

A little diversion for the blog today as my my novel “Helen and the Grandbees” based in south east London has just hit publication date... Buy Helen and the Grandbees here: https://amzn.to/3crOtVr *affiliate link It’s a different type of wrtiting from the...
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A Few More Of My Blog Posts

How to have your cake and blog about it

Jan 31, 2015

A coffee shop blogger’s strategy for staying slim. If I stopped buying cake, readers of my coffee shop blog would stop reading, right..? But I need to keep things under control. I like my clothes. I have spent money on them. I don't want to outgrow them. This could...

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Short for Political Correctness?

Jan 24, 2015

Why is Papa Charlie called Papa Charlie anyway? Is it short for Political Correctness (doesn't sound very military) and does that explain why the food served here is not Spanish, or Turkish, or Italian or Morrocan but Mediterranean? Surely a North or a South in the...

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Lebanese food, in the office, at lunchtime

Jan 1, 2015

Why order pizza for a takeaway office lunch? I thought, when remitted to get lunch for a team meeting. Everyone does that. I wanted to be more interesting. Lebanese would be way more interesting. One I had emailed my colleagues the menu, I kept getting orders for...

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Reviews of The best places to Eat in Blackheath and Greenwich

Dec 25, 2014

It's high time that this blog made some explicit recommendations. Other than telling you that the staff were sweet, you probably want to know where we had meals that were really great, or err kind of disastrous. Now on the coffee shop front (after all, that’s how you...

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A Three Course Amuse Bouche

Dec 20, 2014

A review of Gravetye Manor, East Sussex http://www.gravetyemanor.co.uk I'm figuring that my weekend away in East Sussex counts as a Blackheath blog review. This is because I live in Blackheath and I want to go on weekends away that are an adequately short drive away...

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Multidimensional viewing

Dec 12, 2014

A Review of Gail's Bakery in Blackheath SE3 Sometimes I am lazy. Sometimes the likes of Jamies's Italian and Cau hit the streets of SE3 and SE10 but take me a whole six months to get around to visiting (not that either of them were worth it). But I was a little...

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