My father, an artist, preferred form, retrained colour, order and symmetry, my mother wanted a garden filled with a riot of competing colour

Inventing new dishes with store cupboard ingredients. Image shows the ingredients to make aromatic Egyptian Baharat spice.

Watercolour, 1945, by my father Leonard Eason.As an artist living through difficult times he took great comfort in looking closely at nature

Looking at the humble dandelion and celebrating its beauty and many culinary uses.

An in-depth look at the work of two composers associated with Shakespeare on Film: William Walton and Patrick Doyle.

Like all children from 3 to 83, I wanted snow at Christmas, but we did not get any. A few days before Christmas, however, we had a wonderful and unexpected f...

The First Book Reading and Signing of Walking into Alchemy at the Sprich Dich Frei Institute in Wolfsberg, Austria.

Looking at the Stars

Publication day is here!

The Editing Process

The following is an edited extract from my book Walking into Alchemy, from October 2016. Mereo Books will publish the book in the Autumn. I leave after lunch...

We enjoy breakfast outside in the beautiful September sunshine.

Since I finished my year of walking in 2016 when I walked every week, if not every day, I now have to feed my addiction. Today I have carved out one hour to ...

Walking into Alchemy - part memoir, part nature book. A book about enjoying life and learning to find joy again.

My book will be published by Mereo Books of Cirencester. This is an extract from Chapter 39 entitled Dew.