IPA Photography competition winner

Won the green category with this little ladybird.

Congrats to Emma Blackmore who stole the show.

plants of various types + and some clothes pegs

Butt Hole Road

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7981651/Bladder-Lane-Bent-Street-and-Butt-Hole-Road-the-street-names-that-reached-the-end-of-the-road.html

Indonesian Rendang Curry

This was sensational, warming for a cold night:

You'll need chicken bits (it can be done with beef) - breast or thighs, whatever takes your fancy.

For the sauce you need to bung in a magimix the following:
- roughly chopped shallots x 2
- two stalks of lemon grass roughly chopped
- four cloves of garlic
- one thumb sized piece of fresh ginger
- two red chillis (or more if you like more heat)
- can of coconut milk
- 4 tablespoons of tamarind paste
- two table spoons of dark soy sauce
- 4 tablespoons of nam pla (fish sauce)
- 1 tablespoon of ground cumin
- 1 heaped tablespoon of ground coriander
- 1/4 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon of tumeric
- I tablespoon dark brown sugar

Whizz this all up until you have a smooth sauce.

Transfer this into a casserole or wok together with two whole star anise. Add your chicken bits then simmer with the lid off, stirring well. If you do this with beef you'll need a longer cooking time, however you want the sauce to reduce until it clings to the meat but you have some sauce left to infuse with the jasmine rice (that you serve this with). The chicken took around 30 mins to cook and the sauce to thicken.

Street, road, avenue, park, grove, mews etc

This is the start of an extremely dull project. It started to amuse the kids in the car, we have collected hundreds of different road/street/avenue nomenclature and I am now going to photograph them as a record for town planners everywhere.