Eat, My Friend

Your branches are a pomegranate orchard
with all precious fruits, henna and roses
saffron and spikenard, cassia, cinnamon
with frankincense trees, myrrh and aloes
all perfect spices …
Eat, my friend, drink -
lover be drunk with love
(The Song of Songs)

It’s time again for the Daring Bakers challenge. This month’s challenge is brought to us by Karen of Baking Soda and Zorra [...]

Click!

Here’s my second entry to CLICK the photography event run by Jugalbandi, which this month is focusing on coffee & tea.
So much can be said about tea & coffee that if I were to start writing even a brief history of it here I would be going on and on for a huge post.  So I [...]

Market Day

After work today I dashed excitedly to a local Italian Market, a special event held as part of the May Day celebrations of a nearby village.
The market was only a small affair but it was a joy to go round.  Each stall sold a different product and all of which were authentic, Italian produce made [...]