Influence

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Come with me for a walk, will you? First we’ll walk up Trelawney to the highest point in town. Past Provadore where the door opens and closes with Saturday morning bustle, conversations spilling out with the smells of coffee and toast. Gardens burst out through fences along the street.  Someone in one of the houses is [...]

A crunchy spicy salad

Green Apple, Fennel and Celeriac with Lime, Chili and Mint

And all of a sudden it’s spring. I had been wondering how it would happen here – or if it would at all. Because what I’m used to, spending most of my adult life in places buried under snow for at least four months out of the year, is a spring that comes on so [...]

London Town

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I didn’t expect to, but I fell in love with London. I liked the twisting roads. The fruit and veg stalls set up in the street with their scents of banana and guava and onion. The sound of different languages humming together. I liked the red double-deckers and the black cabs. The way the pollarded trees lining [...]