May 26, 2016

Where's Your Sun Now | #CapturedInWords

As powerful as you are pathetic, whimpering, tormented with emotion and manacled to a ship's mast, whipped, clawed at, beaten against by the fists of furious force. Where's your sun now? 

A storm, a lull, a tide dictated to by a frowning orb in the sky, its mouth drawn ghastfully agape, raking its glance askim the jagged glass sea and watching you rock in the eye of the squall. 
Where's your sun now? 

It's days before you reach land. Your sun has come, kissing your sweet face with raw weeping blisters, boring into your blue eyes as if it means to fill your skull with light, and reaching its long arms so far down your throat that a smile would snake dryly from the corners of your mouth and swallow your head in a venomous gulp. 

Manacled still, you wait for relief in darkness. You wait for the moon. 
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May 23, 2016

A Weekend Walk #11

A Weekend Walk #11
Clissold Park, Hackney.
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May 22, 2016

Asparagus & Celery Leaf Soup | Celia's Saucer

Asparagus & Celery Leaf Soup | Celia's Saucer
A fresh and peppery spring soup, I came up with this recipe one day working in a farm cafe kitchen  and found demand grew so much that ...
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May 20, 2016

Coffee, Cardamom and Pistachio Cake | Celia's Saucer

Coffee, Cardamom and Pistachio Cake | Celia's Saucer
There are lots of things that coffee commonly pairs superbly well with, and many others that you might not have considered. For instance,...
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May 19, 2016

Love is not a feeling | #CapturedInWords

Love is not a feeling | #CapturedInWords
If feelings are, by their very nature, fleeting, i sn't it wildly irrational that we chase feelings like love and of happiness in the p...
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May 17, 2016

A Weekend Walk #10

A Weekend Walk #10
Woodberry Wetlands, Hackney
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May 17, 2016

Brown Butter Shortbread with Honey Roast Cashews & Black Pepper | Celia's Saucer

Brown Butter Shortbread with Honey Roast Cashews & Black Pepper | Celia's Saucer
"I'm making you your birthday present again this year, so, what's your favourite nut?" "Hmm, I think it has ...
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May 15, 2016

LYRA Magazine | Why Every Perspective Matters

LYRA Magazine | Why Every Perspective Matters
You might recall that time when I proposed to curate a magazine we'd all been dying to read: 'The Vag Box'. It was to be a digi...
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May 15, 2016

Untitled #1 | #CapturedInWords

Untitled #1 | #CapturedInWords
The train sings as it pulls from the station, wreathed in mist and shuddering gently in the cold. Black crows are shot into what I can see ...
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May 10, 2016

The Season's Edge | #CapturedInWords

The Season's Edge | #CapturedInWords
I breathe urban petrichor and honeysuckle heaviness, Look to a sky drawing its heels across cement grey  Where gold burning rings ...
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May 09, 2016

Spring Asparagus Recipes | Celia's Saucer

Spring Asparagus Recipes | Celia's Saucer
One of my favourite memories from living in Kent is when I worked in a local farm kitchen, in the middle of the countryside. It was my job ...
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March 07, 2016

Blood Orange Almond Polenta Cake | Celia's Saucer

Blood Orange Almond Polenta Cake | Celia's Saucer
From the wonderful Sophie at   The Cake Hunter Blood Orange & Almond Polenta Cake (adapted from Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi ...
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February 25, 2016

A Blackbird | #CapturedInWords

A Blackbird | #CapturedInWords
Past the garden gate  The jagged silhouette of a pipe Puffs soft chugs of steam That curl like the smoke From a trembling cigar...
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February 15, 2016

An Afternoon in East London #1

An Afternoon in East London #1
(Broadway Market) There's something about weekday London.  It's quiet. And there's always a seat in the cafes. Not ...
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February 13, 2016

The Ink Tide | #CapturedInWords

The Ink Tide | #CapturedInWords
  Last night I dreamt that you and I were swept away on a silent, deaf tide.  You, stricken, lit by the moon. I, in darkness, unheard...
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February 13, 2016

Tea Haiku | #CapturedInWords

Tea Haiku | #CapturedInWords
Your morning memory  blooms in a huff of tea-steam;  soft, distorted and, rising, gone. The touch of sun...
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