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Slow days, small kitchens
and long walks.

  1. Kitchen / 01

    A Year at the Kitchen Window

  2. Slow Travel / 02

    Walking Out of a Bad Decade

  3. Essays / 03

    Everything I Kept From My Father’s Workshop

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Essays, recipes and photographs, posted whenever something is worth keeping.

Soft light through a kitchen window

Photographs 28 Jun 2026

Everything I Know About Light I Learned at the Sink

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I did not study photography. I just spent years washing up at a window that faces east.

A person holding a coffee cup

Notes to Self 10 Jun 2026

A List of Things That Can Wait

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I keep this on the inside of the cupboard door, and I add to it whenever I catch myself rushing.

A clear glass jar on a gray table

Essays 28 May 2026

The Case Against the Good Scissors

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Every house has a drawer of things too good to use, and I have started to think of it as a small museum of fear.

A person riding a bicycle on a road

Notes to Self 20 May 2026

The Summer I Stopped Taking a Phone on Walks

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It started as an accident, when I left it on the kitchen table, and it turned into the best habit I have.

A lake surrounded by trees at sunset

Slow Travel 12 May 2026

Ferries I Have Loved

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I have never met anyone who was in a bad mood at the rail of a small ferry.

A purple flower close up

Photographs 05 May 2026

Spring in a City I Have Never Seen

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In April, when the harbour is still grey, I like to watch someone else’s spring arrive on film.

A shadow of a vase with flowers on a wall

Notes to Self 30 Apr 2026

Sunday Evening, Before It Starts

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There is an hour at the end of Sunday that has a particular weather of its own, and I have spent years trying to do something about it.

A pencil resting on dot grid paper

Books 22 Apr 2026

A Bookshop Bucket List I Will Never Finish

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I keep a list of bookshops I want to visit before I die, and it grows faster than I can travel.

Three assorted vegetables

Kitchen 11 Apr 2026

A Bad Cook’s Guide to Salt

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For the first thirty years of my cooking life I thought I was bad at food. It turned out I was bad at salt.

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