Category: Food and drink
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Nefertiti’s Table

For today’s painting, I travelled all the way back to 1355BC and managed to paint this quick watercolour of a mid-afternoon snack before Queen Neferneferuaten Nefertiti (I was in luck as she’d just popped to the shops with her consort Pharaoh Akhenaten) returned to eat it. It was warm in that Ancient Egyptian Sun, I…
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Strawberries and Cream, Anyone?

It’s July. It’s World Watercolour Month once again. And once again, I’m at it. Very quickly, I must add, but still at it. Today’s watercolour is meant to be Strawberries and Cream. I had the intention of making it abstract. Maybe I succeeded… Visit Doodlewash (link below) to find more details about World Watercolour Month…
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Wordle: Do(ugh)nuts

It’s a stormy debate That doesn’t mar the taste And the silence of a few letters doesn’t help You still fry the batter Which way – doesn’t matter Whole or with a hole, please yourself The star of the show Is a sweet round of dough A glorious gift filled with all manner of guilt…
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Tasty

Debbie’s One Word Sunday theme this week is ‘Tasty’, and I have some slightly-tweaked photos of some lovely sherbety bonbons… The first one, is far from perfect, far from level, and far from round: But, bonbons are bonbons, so it doesn’t matter. The second photo is of the same three bonbons, but dramatically rearranged: And…
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Letters to the Universe… The Calm Edition

Dear Chicken Pad Thai, After my initial shock of finding that Google had announced to the entire world what I was having for my tea on Wednesday, I must say that I really enjoyed eating you. Devouring you is a more apparent phrase, as you were delicious. I was a little surprised to find that…