A festive treat for a pie lover!
Looking for a literary treat for the pie lover in your life? Well, look […]
Muffin Tops
At least I’ve finally got the answer to a question posed right at the beginning […]
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 […]
Put a DUNK on it!
It was a sunny, summer’s day when I found myself at the Table Table chain […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Life of Pies goes national…..
I must apologise for not updating this blog for the past few weeks but as […]
The great stick up job!
If your local pie shop is any good, you may have not noticed a new […]
A book about pies? Why on earth…..
To give you a flavour of what possesses someone to write a book about pies, […]
Wishing you a Hap-PIE Christmas!!
There’s just over two weeks left for you to make someone’s Christmas a truly Hap-PIE […]
21 days later
It was a night which delivered everything it promised. Pies, mainly and plenty of them! […]
The time is PIE
I’m sat at home waiting for the delivery of 1,000 books. Nervous and exciting times […]
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 […]
FREE PIES!!! LIFE OF PIES BOOK LAUNCH!
Life of Pies book launch Friday Oct 24th @ The Raven Hotel
The above might be […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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