Until recently I was a keen – though not particularly good – runner: Saturday morning park runs, interspersed with a couple of other early morning sessions, a half-marathon most years and a one-off London marathon (never again!). Whilst a long-standing joint issue has, at least for the time being, put the kibosh on that particular activity for me, running still remains close to my heart. Continue reading “Food for running”
Tag: custard
Food and Advertising
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways
And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise
Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine
Perpetually those sharply-pictured groves
Of how life should be. (Philip Larkin, ‘Essential Beauty’) Continue reading “Food and Advertising”