Happy Bastille Day! Images culled over time from Marie Claire Maison: It’s great to celebrate your nationhood/revolution with fireworks at the height of summer. We poor Brits (though I am American too) did have a so-called “Glorious Revolution” in 1688 (we swapped one king for another, while the first was out of the country – ...
Much as I love the work I do, it’s always a jolt to return from a vacation in laid-back, upcountry Maui to the real world of the San Francisco Bay Area. Not that we’re exactly formal here, but I went out this morning to do a spot of measuring, and it was a shock for ...
Just a few of the many things you could get involved in in Maui this week – if only there were more hours in the day: Since I’m on vacation, I really haven’t though about kitchens this week at all. Instead, here’s another coffee shop discovery – Wailuku Coffee Company on Market Street in downtown ...
I happened upon this amazing tin ceiling on a coffee run in Haiku the other day: I hadn’t realized that I was getting my coffee in the the historic Bank of Hawaii building – a hidden treasure just down the Kokomo Road from the Haiku Cannery (opposite the post-office). The building has gone through several ...
No actual kitchens today – I am on vacation, after all. But I couldn’t resist a visit to “Exhibition Kitchen: The Art Show” at the Hui No’Eau Visual Arts Center just outside Makawao in lovely upcountry Maui. The exhibition is a juried selection of works by local artists using only kitchen items. Like these creatures, ...
Lucky me – I’ve really escaped this weekend, and for the next week I’ll be hanging out with a few of my nearest and dearest in the tropical paradise that is Haiku, Maui. We are staying in a little cottage with enormous views – sweeping from the peak of Haleakala to the Pacific Ocean some ...
Today would have been my mum’s birthday – so here are a couple more old pictures. I love this one of her in a serious mood. That furniture seems very familiar, I think this must have been taken at my grandmother’s house in Bristol. Here are my mother and father in the Morgan 3 Wheeler ...