Category: Food and drink
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A Bed of Lettuce

I like a challenge, I really do, but even I’m stumped with what to do with this as a subject for a post. Nice, crisp and fresh… a little like the weather at the moment, and totally unlike the forecast. The weather that is. Mind you, the lettuce is completely unlike the forecast as well,…
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The Wednesday Wordcloud: Hardly Feast by Dawn
Hardly worthy of a bulletin, This small, grey, and furry warm-blooded creature, But I needed to drink by sunrise Bland and tough – It could have done with some sauce A bit of a grisly and sinister Wordcloud this week… I should have saved this for October!
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30 Minute Strawberry
#WorldWatercolorMonth Day Twentysix Another quick splosh about with colour, after a quick pencil outline, and I ended up with this rather large strawberry. It isn’t large really, it only looks that way. It’s mostly water. This one looks far juicier on the photograph than it does on the actual painting… and they say a photograph…
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Knickerbocker Glory!
#WorldWatercolorMonth Day Twentytwo Scrumptious vanilla and banana ice cream, blended to perfection with fresh cream, layered in a lopsided glass with strawberry, black cherry and passion fruit sauces, sprinkled on top with one or two crumbled biscuit pieces and a cherry and a chunk of pineapple to top it off. Looks appalling… but looks aren’t…
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Using my loaf
#WorldWatercolorMonth Day Eight I couldn’t think what to paint for today’s watercolour. I needed something different from yesterday’s creation – that’s the rule I’ve set myself; the next post must be completely different to the previous one – but I couldn’t think of anything. I was also short of time, which didn’t help matters. I…