Cooking Celtic Cakes

  We have a glut of cooking apples this year and they’re a type that doesn’t store very well so I’m trying out as many apple recipes as I can find time to. Today I made Tinker’s Cakes, which are a variation on Welsh Cakes, a traditional Celtic dish, using apples and cinnamon instead ofContinue reading “Cooking Celtic Cakes”

Babysitting the Art at Bus Stop Cinema

I volunteer regularly to babysit exhibitions at Elysium Gallery and it’s a chance to catch up on admin on the laptop like cataloguing photos and writing artist statements. This week it’s Bus Stop Cinema, featuring 13 films from international artists, an eclectic mix of art, drama, animation and parody. It’s fun babysitting in the darkContinue reading “Babysitting the Art at Bus Stop Cinema”

Man and Boy on a Seashore Safari; Big Bikes at the Ice Cream Parlour

I carry a small sketchbook and a pack of four Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens, sizes S, F, M and B in black and I’m always scribbling. The most difficult is drawing on the move, trying to capture spontaneous moments of life in a few seconds. This fleeting sketch was done two summers ago whenContinue reading “Man and Boy on a Seashore Safari; Big Bikes at the Ice Cream Parlour”