Posted on 15 April, 2008 by Gee
Remains of Will’s Hansel and Gretel Cake
“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
- W. Somerset Maugham
The great writer would have been sorely disappointed if he had arrived at my pound shop dinner party on that chilly November evening. My guests certainly did not [...]
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Posted on 2 April, 2008 by Gee
99 Cent by Andreas Gursky
© Andreas Gursky/Courtesy Phillips de Pury & Company
It makes my heart do flip-flops. Gursky has found beauty in the banal . Maybe I could sent him on a photographic assignment to north London. I think even he’d be hard pressed to find the beautiful in my little pound shop.
I was also [...]
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Posted on 27 March, 2008 by Gee
Spring has sprung and all around us are the joys of nature that a new season brings.
Last week in the countryside I leaned on a wooden fence to gaze at the lambs bouncing merrily across a daffodil strewn field and thought “Finally, you are mine for the eating”.
The Pound Shop bet is over and I can [...]
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