About 20 years ago I wanted to learn how to make bread so I bought a book, Eric Treuille and Ursula Ferrigno's Bread. One of its recipes is for an Italian Easter bread, ciambella mandorlata, originating in Bologna. It's a brioche-type bread – the dough enriched with lemon zest, eggs and unsalted butter – topped … Continue reading Making an Easter tradition: ciambella mandorlata
Wordless Wednesday #16: reflections
The Cast Court, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Standing beneath Trajan's column following the frieze as it winds it way upwards, round and round, telling the story of the a eponymous emperor's bloody wars in Dacia, I marvel at how close up to it I can get. The column's too tall, though, so the top half is sitting quietly next to the bottom … Continue reading The Cast Court, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wordless Wednesday #15
Wordless Wednesday #14: Second World War bomb damage, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wordless Wednesday #13: insect houses, Hyde Park, London
Wordless Wednesday #12
Wordless Wednesday #11: wishful thinking…
Wordless Wednesday #10: Fishing time
Great Witcombe Roman villa, Gloucestershire
Nestled at the foot of the Cotswold hills in Gloucestershire, just as they begin to rise up and woods cover the landscape, lies the Roman villa at Great Witcombe, built in the second century AD with additions continuing on-and-off until the fourth. I'd walked up from the village, following the footpath along the field edges, … Continue reading Great Witcombe Roman villa, Gloucestershire
