Now-ness Pitta

I’m on the hunt for now-ness or the glories of the present tense. It’s a transporting concept, expressed magnificently by the playwright Dennis Potter in his final interview. He was already grievously ill and as he laboured to finish writing Cold Lazarus and Karaoke, he glimpsed the plum tree outside his window. ‘…it is the […]

The Ginger Pig

    The Ginger Pig Meat Book by Tim Wilson and Fran Warde Published in hardback on 7th May 2011 (Mitchell Beazley, £25.00) Photography Kristin Perers If I was a pig I’d like to grow up on one of Tim Wilson’s farms. The pink-cheeked and chubby Yorkshire farmer describes his book The Ginger Pig as […]