“Do you sell pies luv?”
A simple enough question I thought. It might get you a funny look if you walk into a bakers in Wigan and ask that question, seeing as you are likely to be confronted with racks of the buggers.
The pie lady – and I’m not being […]
After launching the Life of Pies twitter account just a week ago, it is indeed heartening to see that we have 105 followers already leaving us in no doubt that we are indeed a nation of pie aficionados.
Now I’d love to send each and every one of you a virtual pie but that would take a structured, disciplined plan delivered with military style efficiency but as I’ve […]
FINNIGANS OF CREWE
I heard about this bakery in Crewe from a bunch of Wiganers of all people. There’s a very well put together nostalgia website called Wigan World, a real hive of information and great pictures and memories although some of the old boys […]
Ok let me tell you where I’m at – he says sounding like a weedy Dragons’ den interrogator. For years I wrote about the only thing I know: football. For the past eighteen months or so I have formalised a plan I have had in my head for a number of years: to write a book about pies.
If I’ve been looking a […]
I took the opportunity to head west a few weeks back to understand the Clarks phenomenon. Pulled up in a working class area of Cardiff to be hit by the sweet aroma of baking and students wheeling shopping trollies back to the supermarket they carried them from on their head’s the previous night just to get the quid back.
I started to realise I had a problem when I found myself sat in my car by a leafy park in Knutsford waving a knife in the air getting ready to chop up a pie for the purpose of taking a picture of it’s inner organs. Confused pensioners and observant dog walkers got […]
The release of The Life of Pies is set for the 1st of August 2013.
For now, you can pre-order what is set to be the pie sensation of the year here.
Richard and Judy are rumoured to be interested. Well, Judy more than Richard, naturally.