Wordless Wednesday #69: chive flowers

Wordless Wednesday #68: cirrus sky

A Quiet Life #5: the joy of simple cooking

In this post I'd just like to share a recipe. One of those simple dishes with just a few ingredients which seems to bring out the best in all of them, it's an easy pasta dish using leafy kale greens with anchovy and garlic. It works well with leafy greens in general, the best I've …

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Wordless Wednesday #67: dandelions

A Quiet Life #4: the lemon tree

In a pot in the garden is a small lemon tree. It's about 70cm tall, covered in fierce thorns and, at this time of year, is looking a little dishevelled after a winter spent outside in a climate it's not suited to. About five years old, it is the sole survivor of school holiday project …

Wordless Wednesday #66: wild garden

A Quiet Life #3: Brean Down, Somerset, June 2019

I've only been to Brean Down once, in early June last year. An outlier of the Mendip Hills to the east, it stretches into the brown-blue waters of the Bristol Channel rising to about 100m above the beach and the water. I'd wanted to visit and walk its length for some time, its location combined …

Wordless Wednesday #65