Pull and Push

post heart attack

the pull and push of

the fast food wagon

Paul Conneally

Loughborough 2017

RE-TALE: October Rain

Around the outside of Leicester City's King Power Stadium are a number of fast food wagons.

They almost all serve exactly the same range of products, essentially burgers and hot dogs.

Many believe that the food on sale outside the ground from these wagons is superior to that inside and so they do a brisk trade.

Today I'm a little later to the ground than normal and all the 'Handmade Beefburgers' van can lure me in to do is take a photograph.

For the record, Leicester City beat Crystal Palace one nil and I had a Pukka Pie inside the ground.

October rain
a pied wagtail dips
along the touchline

Paul Conneally
October 24 2015

from Paul Conneally's ongoing series of works RE-TALE 

Weighing It Up

weighing it up
at the hot potato stand
baked beans and cheese

Paul Conneally
Loughborough
August 2015

Pizza Van

Bourg-Les-Valance sits on the north side of the city of Valance and provides a handy stopover as we drive down L'autoroute de Soleil towards the Côte d'Azur.

The hotel we stay in is surrounded by hinterland discount shops, tool hire companies and light industry. It's surprisingly good and the restaurant is excellent. I give myself over to the will of the chef who for twenty-eight euro will contour up for me a 'surprise' three course meal. Neither he nor our waiter will tell me what to expect only that the chef will have a look at me and decide, from what he sees, the dishes that he will cook.

I turn out to be a starter of lightly fried sea bass fillets on a bed of mashed potatoes, a main course of duck slices in a pepper sauce with roasted Mediterranean vegetables and a dessert of shards of white and dark chocolate with pistachio ice cream. He was spot on.

after dinner walk
the light from the pizza van
draws in moths

Paul Conneally
Bourg-Les-Valance
July 26 2015

Sizzle and Spit

Come rain or shine the 'Tasty Treat To Eat' burger wagon is to be found somewhere in Loughborough Market Place.

When business is slack it's time for the chef to sit down and catch up on some reading.

sizzle and spit
the smell of fried onions
through spring drizzle

Paul Conneally
Loughborough
March 2015

Fast Food And Gossip

Hot Food Stand

It stands at the entrance to Market Yard, just off Loughborough's busy Market Place.

A steady stream of customers, a mixture of shoppers and market traders, come to warm up with a hot drink and maybe a burger, hotdog or egg and bacon cob.

fast food and gossip
a single cabbage leaf
on the winter wind

Paul Conneally
January 31 2015