Minimally adapted from a Nigella Lawson recipe in the Guardian. Recently I’ve been pining for a good baked rice pudding, not a tinned one, not a bought one from anywhere else but a good, solid, home-made rice pudding with nutmeg and all the trimmings. But I’ve found it hard to find pudding rice anywhere right …
Pop Art Qualities
This list was produced by Richard Hamilton in January 1957 as part of a letter to Alison and Peter Smithson in 1957: Suppose we were to start with the objective of providing a unique solution to the specific requirement of a domestic environment e.g. some kind of shelter, some kind of equipment, some kind of …
Spiced Pear Chutney
Woke up to that bag of pears that we were given and decided that they had to be turned into something that would last so to the Internets we go. There were a few different recipes but I came across a recipe on the BBC website that seemed ok, though there were some changes that …
Getting back into Warhammer 40000
I was almost out, almost gone after just under 30 years playing various armies. Then, Indomitus! The sculpts for both armies are just stunning and I was watching the leaks and previews I got really excited about the game for the first time in years, possibly decades. I’m still selling off all the old stuff …
A glut of pears
For a few years now since moving into our new house we’ve always looked at amazement at the neighbours pear tree, it is absolutely huge and at this time of year the branches are just laden with pears. Though we’ve always wondered it took us to this year to ask what they do with them. …
Essence of the North
What is the “Essence of the North?” That is what is being asked by The Northerner Blog in the Guardian today. They are asking for contributors to post an image that captures the essence of the North. Whose North? There is always the chocolate box image of Dales and Moors, unbroken wilderness, apart from James …
Realist Manifesto
The title ‘realist’ has been imposed on me in the same way as the title ‘romantic’ was imposed on the men of 1830. Titles have never given the right idea of things; if they did, works would be unnecessary. Without going into the question as to the rightness or wrongness of a label which, let …
Starting out on zines
It’s taken me years playing about with formats and styles and still I’ve never really come to a decision on how I wanted to show my work, but lockdown has given me a chance to join in with a few workshops and groups and one of them was called The Lockdown Zine Collective where a …
Shopping List
This is a wish list (shopping list) of bits and pieces that I want/need for my working practice, this will be added to and updated as and when, got some of this in the shed but will start pulling it out when I get studio space sorted. – [ ] Light Box – [ ] …
Moving Across
Right now I’m not writing many reviews for this blog (or working on the UK&IRL map/list across at indiebookshops.com) as I’m in the process of closing down a lot of my other blogs and moving all the information across to here, and in the middle of doing that I decided that the site needed a …