places: ely, cambridgeshire

photos from a weekend with my good friend charlie - i'm guilty of always parking him for ages because we always pick up like from where we left like it was yesterday. unfortunately he misses out spending probably 20 days a month away on business, ely is beautiful and isn't lacking much: a buzzing market full of flea-market finds (more on the chair we bought later), vintage cashmere, fishmongers selling rabbits and pheasants, cheeses, pies and more cheeses, the canal with locks and riverside pubs, the cathedral and surrounds and importantly for emmy - a tip-top playground.

Molloy & Sons: Heritage Tweed on Nowness.com.

with thanks to logcabineer

lovely little find: Hardy & Parsons

Makers of beautiful English leather belts.

food: time to cook

we're at my mum's house in France and with a wonderful wood fired stove it seems fitting to cook like this. this is a venison hot-pot and without any photos from cooking i'll hold back on the recipe save to say:

good bacon.
rosemary, bay & thyme from the garden.
diced venison from the forequarter of a fallow doe.
onions.
potatoes, specifically "belle de fontenay" which are waxy but worked well enough here.



My toughest critic, and I wasn't sure how the revelation that dinner was Bambi's mum was going to go down.

Pretty well it works out.