Galway on film: Kai

Back when I was shooting The Kai Cookbook, part of the brief involved getting shots of the restaurant and its surrounding areas. So over the course of the project, I would regularly shoot around Galway and the Westend, and pop into Kai and capture the cake stands or the gorgeous

Consciously Uncoupling from Big Tech

And re-wilding your digital life.

Have you seen the Lilith Fair documentary?

Fun, feminism and oh-so-much late 90s nostlagia.

Bringing back the blogroll

And awakening a meadow of delight*.

February so far: birthdays, book club and presents from Boston

I don't know about you, but it's only now, with the brightening days, that it's truly beginning to feel like a new year. Bringing that message home was Ari's sweet school craft: He made and decorated this candle at school as part

A Nollaig na mBan Mother Nourishment Circle

My buddy Maeve is a special kind of human. Warm, giving, generous and just so authentically herself. I recently heard the phrase “We don’t make friends, we recognize them” and this was very much my experience meeting Maeve. By day, she heads up Music Connects, an amazing organisation who

Cup-filling moments in real-life January

Snapshots from life lately.

Is this thing still on?

“You are a museum of everything you have ever loved.” - via Well, for a while there it wasn't. This blog, my teeny tiny digital garden had very much gone to seed. For a variety of reasons, it has been offline for a couple of years, but now,

Everything I've been reading on Hamnet

I went to see Hamnet last week with some mama friends and I've been thinking and reading about it ever since. The new film from Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao, it's a beautiful and brilliant adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2000 book of the same name,

Behind the scenes on The Kai Cookbook

One of the big highlights of this year was having the privilege to photograph The Kai Cookbook. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Matthew Cox (@newmanandeastwood) For two weeks in April, Jess, food stylist Charlotte, and publisher Kristin and I brought the imagery of the cookbook to

On loss, estrangement and the death of a brilliant man

“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” — L.M. Montgomery My father died this week. I didn’t know him as I should have – my parents split when I was seven, when we left Mexico and came to Ireland, so contact over the years

Spring Crafts

April, a time for blossoms, feeding the birds and sweet spring crafts.