‘I did not suffer bone meltdown’ … a review of The Lord Northbrook, Lee SE12
I’m starting to find Lee a very attractive eating location. It has wide pavements and the ability to move from transport to eatery without having to wait at pedestrian railings while others in...
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...
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...
“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...
“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...
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...
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!
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...
“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...
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,...
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A Few More Of My Blog Posts
A deliciously complicated Negroni delivery…
In my long search of trying to find reasons to be cheerful in lockdown with ice and a very badly broken arm, I encountered the Riding House Cafe, normally based in Fitrozia was now delivering. I did not know what sort of food experience to expect - the...
Broken arm!
Morning all! This is just a quick note to say I can see lots of people are hitting the blog when I normally publish on a Saturday morning only to be disappointed that I haven’t blogged for a couple of weeks... Apologies... this is because I had a freak accident on my...
Grace’s Caribbean Cuisine, SE12
Let me be perfectly clear. We found ourselves at Grace’s Carribean Cuisine (well, on Just Eat’s website) for one thing and one thing only. Goat Curry. Okay... well, we did add things to that ‘one thing’. It is, after all, hard to turn down Jerk Chicken. But we missed...
Announcing “Adrift – The Storyteller & The Mosaicist”
From the writer of ‘Engaging and Uplifting’ (Daily Mail) HELEN AND THE GRANDBEES, the next book… An artist inspired by Ethiopia, a storyteller who lives by the sea, and early 2000’s London all feature in ADRIFT. When ADRIFT’s protagonist meets her artist Robin, he has...
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...
More Insta-Art of HELEN AND THE GRANDBEES
Some of the bookstagrammers pictures of “Helen and the Grandbees” during last month’s book blog tour... Helen and the Grandbees is available to buy here:...