March 2007 - Painting With Shadows

The Thinking Blogger Awards

I’ve been tagged by Pendullum to hand out 5 Thinking Blogger Awards – links to blogs that make you think, basically. Her own posts are alwa...Read More

Food Philosophy

This isn’t just any chocolate cake...

The deep, dark, rich smells filling the house betray the emergence of chocolate sponge from a warm oven. Soon it will be filled with thick, ...Read More

Local Reflections

Spring

Everything these days is over hyped, so it’s not surprising we become so easily jaded and cynical when the newest and latest blah-de-blah is...Read More

Appearance Weight loss

Clothes

Every morning when I climb out of bed, I stretch my arms above my head until they almost click, then glance down at my belly where, from thi...Read More

Conversation snippets

What do you want to watch?

“Because I’m not in the mood to watch something I really want to watch.” “Well what choice does that leave us then, if you don’t want to wat...Read More

Family Man Fatherhood

An emptier house

There’s a particular cold, pre-dawn, early morning smell to the world outside that is flavoured by lack of sleep from excitement and nervous...Read More

Chalk Lines

My post “ We are the authors of our own story ” is the briefest of outlines of an idea that’s been playing on my mind for the past week or s...Read More

Red Nose Day Blog Book

I will get round to expanding on my previous post (and answering the comments) when I've got a spare moment, but in the meantime we inte...Read More

We are the authors of our own story

The first worlds I moved in were entirely created by other people. In fact, I had no concept they had been created at all: they just were. T...Read More

Blog upgrade

Having been hijacked into switching to New-Blogger a few weeks back, I’d been toying with the idea of upgrading to their new template system...Read More

Spreading my seed

I’ve never been asked to guest post on someone else’s blog before, so to be approached by Restaurant Gal for my first time was a real honou...Read More

Conversation snippets Food

The Toffee Shop Window, Castle Douglas

“Good grief, that’s huge! You don’t suppose it’s solid, do you?” “When was the last time you came across a solid chocolate Easter egg?” “Bu...Read More

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