Fruitful Work
Fruitful Work And so it came about that I, bored from lack of paying work, tired from a year of travelling, walking uphill, downhill, along streams, lakes, tiled streets, cobblestoned avenues, gazing where the daffodils were, probably, blowing in the spring, in places as diverse as The Eastern Townships, The Bruce Pensinsula, Lisbon,…
Vespera – 1
A retelling of a tale by Sreyoshi Guha (By kind permission) To Read The Original Story And To Learn More About It, Please Click Here To See The Review. It was afternoon and the sun headed into the west as the doors of the prison closed behind her, closing down the fourteen years…
Why I can’t buy jeans anymore
Why I can’t buy jeans anymore. Well, hello there! This here is the second post of 2024 and we’re here because I want to talk about Why I can’t buy jeans anymore. Eh? The first one? The first one was not about why I can’t buy jeans anymore. It was about a bomb…
Punjabi in England – Time Stands Still
Time Stands Still This was my first ever trip to England in 2018. Not much has been written about my attraction to England. What there is can be read if you click this link. If you read it, Time Will Stand Still as the regular readers will attest. Suffice it to say that…
No Yeast Bread
No Yeast Bread Yeast. It's a thing that causes bread dough to rise. There are other things that can cause bread to rise, other than yeast. Like sourdough starters, which I have used and it was good! See here for more. But what if you have no yeast and no sourdough starter, what…
Cheese and Parsley Bread
Bread Bread is essential to life. Man can live by bread alone. Butter, jam, bacon, ham; all these are mere bonuses. Of course, we know that bacon makes the world go round. But then, some will say, the world has always been round. At which point I have to remind people that the…
The Summer of ’23
The Summer of '23 'twas a busy one, was the summer of '23. In case, you're wondering, the apostrophe replaces the '20' in front of the '23', thus, '23 means '2023'. Now, you're wondering what's all this then? Why this overuse of apostrophes? Why are you wasting my time? Well, the truth is…
Blueberry muffins with sourdough discard
The Muffins What is (or are) muffins? This is a good question. I think we need to clear this up, because there are two basic types. Muffins, which most Americans will recognise as that cylindrical shape, growing symmetrically in girth from bottom to top, topped with a mushroom head; which, IMO, is the…