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Me and the Sea by Richard Fisher - local historian and artist

My sister and I on Brighton Beach. Living in the middle of London in the early 60s as a kid, one of my first experiences of outside water...

The Sound and the sisters

In 1975 Jaws was released...and unsurprisingly that was when my sister and I developed our fear of sea swimming. Crazy looking back now...

Celeriac Soup

Celeriac not the most attractive of vegetables, but don’t let that put you off it has been eaten for thousands of years, it was first...

Sea salt and Plymouth Hoe Rosemary, Focaccia

After foraging on Plymouth Hoe, recently with the excellent Tess Wilmot and the Light-Seekers Clan , we discovered a rosemary bush...

Engaging with birds in your garden when you just can't be bothered

I know that isn't a catchy or motivating title for a blog post but guess what?... two years into the pandemic and I have bounced in and...

Karen's Carrot Soup

So this is really a family recipe. We all make different versions of it but the stand out ingredients are mint and apple. Adding these...

Slow sloe gin

Gin is something we do really well here. I'm using Plymouth Gin for this recipe but you can use whatever you like. So when it comes to...

Janner Windfall Apple Cake

Plymouth has an incredible 43 community orchards. The very wonderful Tess Wilmot from Always Apples told me that...so it must be true. ...

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