Jul 11, 2024 | Featured, Recipes |
How do I make a sourdough bread ferment? It’s surprisingly simple, but it takes 5 days. Once you’ve made it, you can use the same ferment or leaven or starter for years, assuming you like the flavour. Simply follow the instructions below to keep your...
Sep 11, 2021 | Fiction, Short Stories |
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt. He was very much admired indeed. “He is as beautiful...
Jun 26, 2021 | Non-Fiction, Travel |
From Abyssinia I was sent to Syria, where I served in Jabal al Druze and later worked for a year among the tribes. The deserts in which I had travelled had been blanks in time as well as space. They had no intelligible history, the nomads who inhabited them had no...
Aug 9, 2011 | Non-Fiction |
It is sunset, the sound of sirens is less frequent outside now in Hackney (E8), and it seems like the right time to reflect for a minute on the ‘London riots’. To set some context for this, I (slightly begrudgingly) thought Penny Red’s blog was very...
