RIGHT!!! Self-imposed boot-camp for me. Cutting out or down on salt, sugar, no alcohol (except for Dunkerton’s cider on special occasions), no preserved meat full of nitrates, and less meat, anyway. Less wheat bread and pasta. More fruit including berries and grapefruit, salad, veg. Drink lots of water and green tea. And this is why. […]
Ode To A Detox On Returning From St Ives: poem Read More »
Roof of the Tate St Ives (pic by Jan Jefferies) Return from St Ives. And this time it’s personal. Arrived tired, weary and achy from a seven-hour drive this evening, and missing the town and friends already. Two weeks is never enough. But it was an eventful couple of weeks. Apart from regular festival activities
Top o’ the world, Ma: return from St Ives Read More »
So this is how I amuse myself while I’m in St Ives for the festival. I sang for the first time, not including the occasion two years back when I provided backing vocals for Buffalo Bill Smith and Charles Shaar Murray at the Kettle and Wink and forgot the lyrics to Who Do You Love?,
Madam Miaow sings “Mercedes Benz” at the St Ives Festival Read More »
Still in St Ives for the festival. Here’s the first of my videos of the talent. Superbia play their great anti-war song, “The Afghanistan Song” during the lunchtime sessions in Norway Square for the St Ives Arts Festival, September 2010. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
Supurbia: “The Afghanistan Song”, St Ives Festival 2010. Read More »
One of the things that’s always drawn me to Cornwall is the friendliness of the locals. On one childhood coastal walk into Hayle from St Ives, an elderly man tipped his hat to my parents and wished us “Good morning.” “Who was that?” I wanted to know, my city expectations utterly flummoxed by the revelation
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One mo’ time … Anna performs Anna May Wong Must Die! at the St Ives Arts Cub, Westcotts Quay, St Ives, Cornwall, TR26, 7pm, Sunday 20th September, as part of the St Ives Arts Festival. Tickets: £6.00 More Info: 01736 797122 Anna May Wong Must Die! is Anna Chen’s one-woman show about Hollywood’s first Chinese
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