…the big ‘uns are difficult to catch on a fly. Isaac Walton, author of the Compleat Angler (1653) published a recipe for baked trout; the first line reads “First, catch your trout.”  So, a free style, open air painting to match the catch. Step 1. Find place to inspire painting. Step 2. Prepare raw canvas with white acrylic. Arrange stones in sort of fishy form.  Step 3. Dribble paint of unlikely colours over stones. Blue wash above the fishy form…. Continue reading →

…e-sourdough-starter to the extent that I goaded him into a delicious bleach-free loaf. Here it is bathing in that ultravioletful balcony sunlight waiting to be eaten with my disinfectant-less mulligatawny soup made from the vestiges of last night’s chicken curry. All this positivity has got me thinking about the possible benefits of our lockdown. My wife has discovered that she loves working from home. Yay! We’ll see where this goes. The apartment… Continue reading →