the air smells of honey

It’s Sunday, and Spring, and a breeze is blowing, but not much. It is warm enough to sit outside, thinking about food and what might be

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chu-i

After Chu…

autumn

So Autumnal here, Australian style. Some slightly yellowing leaves, sunny cloudless skies but the sun is lower so the days are pleasant without being hot. Long shadows and slower days.

giving

giving – one of those many things that I think about, even during meditation. Meditation can be, if you want, a deep deep contemplation, deep exploration of a topic, of a concept, of a problem

spice

The temptation when you first begin to cook Indian dishes is to find spice laden dishes that take hours to prepare and cook. It took me a while when I was a newby want-to-be maker of passable

Garden

On a day where the only noises are the birds and the sounds of the plants growing, the local magpies band together like a neighbourhood vigilante group to eject the noisy miners that have

Autumn

And chillies hang like earrings from the chilli bushes. Amaranth leaves turn red and spectacular and my plans for removing them are delayed. Magpies are not fussy, sipping and bathing in the tray of water