Salty Greens and a Salty Dog…
I’m just back from the rickety shack I sometimes call home, on the North Kent marshes. For the last two months I’ve been watching the samphire growing along the creeks of the salt marsh and finally...
View ArticleFeeling Lickerish?!
Two events last week prove the theory of coincidence. Catherine came round with a packet of liquorice seeds, and a magazine asked me to go to Portsmouth for a story they were planning. Catherine grows...
View ArticleKerb Appeal
Walking the dog around the streets of SE8 and SE4 I can’t ignore the huge amount of fruit falling onto the pavements, unwanted and unloved. Now it’s damsons and crab apples and soon there’ll be pears...
View ArticleA Life of Pie
I almost called this “Home Alone”, but I wasn’t entirely alone, there were the four dogs, and the pork pie. Clarissa jetted off to Dubai and then India for a week as the unpaid assistant of an...
View ArticleThe Devil at Work in Deptford
Tuesday October 11th was Old Michaelmas Day, the day when Satan, one of God’s angels, was banished from Heaven for being bad. He fell to earth fast, ‘like lightning from heaven’, and landed in a...
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