Do you have the bottle?

Paul and I spent a fragrant afternoon at a wine tasting event for Wines of Germany last week. It was a blind tasting of the finest Pinot Noir wines from around the world.

The hope for the event organisers was that the German wines would demonstrate their ability to compete with the better known producers. And lets just say, they went away extremely happy! Paul got some really lovely footage which is currently being edited into a short film of the event, by yours truly - which I will post / link to when its ready...

500 shots of Summer

Well... just the one - shooting the trailer for The book of Summers, which will be released next year.  We're really pleased with the result: 

A Question of Taste

Cafédirect asked us to cover a coffee matching event at L'atelier des Chefs last week- the idea behind the evening was to demonstrate that you can match a good cup of coffee with a delicious desert, in much the same way as you can match a main course with wine...turns out, they are bang on!

A selection of "foodie" bloggers were invited along to create deserts to match with some of Cafédirect's single origin coffees. The results were exceptionally tasty! Check out the little film we made of the evening and the gastronomic creations that resulted...

Cafédirect are also running a competition to win a cookery masterclass for anyone who can come up with a tasty coffee / desert combination...

just off to the kitchen...

19 Recipes in One day

Didn't think food could taste this good. The chefs at Leiths Cookery School made it look easy and were a absolute pleasure to work with.

ASDA have commissioned us to showcase their Extra Special Christmas dishes with some helpful tips from the experts at Leiths.

Look out in Nov / Dec for some Extra Special Christmas recipe films. If we manage to get them all edited in time!

Brave Souls

Thursday was filming at the Doncaster Platform 51 women's drop-in centre.  We're putting together a promo for them to be shown at the City Women's Network event next month.

We heard some heartfelt and deeply harrowing stories that were humbling to the core.  All I can say is a big thank you to Diane and Lou, as well as Emma the Project Worker for opening up so bravely.

I'm editing right now and I have, surprisingly, been deeply moved on more than one occasion.

Our duty now is to make a film that will encourage support in the organisation that will hopefully allow more women and girls in need of help to find support in the future.

http://www.platform51.org/

I love NY

Dogs in bags, cats perched on heads. Pastrami on rye, baseball in the park, ice cream sandwiches and perhaps the best burger I've ever eaten. Having a fab Big Apple time.

Cheesy Hot Pants!