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 […]
Wishing you a Hap-PIE Christmas!!
There’s just over two weeks left for you to make someone’s Christmas a truly Hap-PIE one […]
21 days later
It was a night which delivered everything it promised. Pies, mainly and plenty of them! The […]
The time is PIE
I’m sat at home waiting for the delivery of 1,000 books. Nervous and exciting times indeed. […]
One hundred days of pie: No.46 The Half and Half Pie
What’s that you say? Yes a half and half pie! Not a half and half pizza, […]
FREE PIES!!! LIFE OF PIES BOOK LAUNCH!
Life of Pies book launch Friday Oct 24th @ The Raven Hotel
The above might be a […]
One hundred days of pie No.45 A New Zealand Gourmet steak and cheese
I imagine taking pies to Newcastle is a bit like taking coals to Newcastle but for […]
One hundred days of pie No.44 Jesse Smiths of Cirencester
Cirencester is one of those places that, no matter whether you live there or not, you […]
One hundred days of pie No.43 Mobberley Village Bakery
I seem to have gone overboard praising some of the better pies in the book the […]
One hundred days of pie No.42: Clarks of Bristol
Having introduced the original Clarks yesterday, it would be harsh not to give it’s English cousin […]
One hundred days of pie No.41 Clarks of Cardiff
It was chirpy Bristolian Ian Holloway who first opined that Clarks Pies were one of the […]
One hundred days of pie No.40 Dawsons Meat and Potato Pie
I feel duly obliged to do a piece on this one in my pie hall of […]
You might recall a few blogs back I mentioned the bad press that 
Guess what came yesterday?
Yes – It’s a pair of advance copies of Life of Pies sent by air freight!
As […]
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About The Author
This is the bit that I suppose I should have put in the book but to be perfectly honest I talk about myself and my escapades enough in that to indulge in any kind of […]
One hundred days of pie: No.38 A Glovers Butter Pie
Ah yes, the butter pie: talk about a pie which divides opinions.
I had one the other […]
One hundred days of pie – No.37 Yorkes Peppered Steak
Although I’m quite centrally located – indeed I’m based in the pie capital of the country […]
One hundred days of pie – No.36 Thomas of Malmesbury
From one Thomas to another….with the main consistency being that it’s an awkward bugger to spell and say. […]