A Potted pie guide
The beauty of my extensive research (2012-present*) is that whenever I find myself in a foreign town, I always know where to sniff out the best pies.
(*though if truth be known, like most Wiganers, I have been sampling pies for […]
Save The Pie!
For one week only I am selling off some pie books on the cheap I have found. I am selling them at just £1.99 or they WILL be pulped. Due to […]
Red Hot Pie Action: The Will Grigg pie
As many readers know I’m a Wiganer as well as a pie lover, and let’s face it, the two normally go hand in hand anyway. Following Wigan Athletic’s remarkable run to the quarter final of the FA Cup, the Rolling […]
Living the dream as a Pie Judge
I’ve written at length in the past about pies, reviewed pies, looked at particular types of pies, or pies by area and I write about loads of other stuff too but then you’ll have to go elsewhere for that as […]
Free postage on Life of Pies – the ideal pie based Xmas gift!
It’s Black Friday and soon enough Christmas is coming and the pie eater is getting fat as they say. The nights are drawing in and you’ll be needing a good book to read. Well, I can’t promise that, but I […]
Taylor Made!
It’s time for the latest episode of my “pies which didn’t make it into the book (and probably deserved to)” series and today I’m sampling the pies from Derby House, or rather Taylor’s Farm Shop near Ormskirk, West Lancashire.
For all […]
The greatest show on earth!!
It’s taken me a few weeks to catch up following my trip to Melton Mowbray but yes PIE FEST is really a thing, and it really is a festival of PIES!!
I was kindly invited there on the Sunday to talk […]
A festival of pies!
It’s not often I get a gig to go to. Even when I do it tends to fall through, like the unfortunate incident over the cancelled BBC Documentary. There are numerous events in the pie calendar that simply cannot be […]
Shed Heaven
It happens once maybe twice a year, when the time comes to empty my shed, usually quickly followed by a tip to the trip and whacking a load of stuff on […]
A #WorldBookDay and #BritishPieWeek special offer
Do YOU like books?
Do YOU like pies?
Maybe it’s about time you got a book about pies?
In which case maybe this is the book for you….
Welcome to Wigan – undisputed pie capital of the world! Maybe it is disputed though? A festive treat for a pie lover!
Looking for a literary treat for the pie lover in your life? Well, look no […]
Muffin Tops
At least I’ve finally got the answer to a question posed right at the beginning of […]
How not to write a book
It’s just over 12 months to the day since I launched my self-published epic Life of Pies and […]
Put a DUNK on it!
It was a sunny, summer’s day when I found myself at the Table Table chain in […]
Back on the pie trail: Greens Cheese & Onion
A familiar establishment but a pie I’ve never tried before from there. It’s a cheese and […]
One hundred days of pie No.50 Grasmere Farm Steak Pie
At last, 50up! This is still under 16% of the pies featured in all their glory in […]
One hundred days of pie – No.49 Burchalls of St Helens
‘Tis a shameful admission but I worked in St Helens for three years and parked up […]
One hundred days of pie: No.48 Lord of the Pies – The Stockport Pie
After a long day procuring growlers on the other side of the Pennines, I found myself […]
One hundred days of pie: No.47 Greenhalghs Steak & Ale
Or the Greenhalghs Steak & Ale with Dunscar Bridge Brewery Ale Pie to give it it’s full title.
Now […]
Life of Pies goes national…..
I must apologise for not updating this blog for the past few weeks but as some […]
The great stick up job!
If your local pie shop is any good, you may have not noticed a new adhesive […]
A book about pies? Why on earth…..
To give you a flavour of what possesses someone to write a book about pies, I’ve […]