Sharpie Al

Charlotte Alice Overton-Hart, or just Sharpie Al.

Champion of active ageing, and the experience and wisdom of older people, inspired by my gran.

This is my online scrapbook, mostly.

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This week I’ve been commissioned to bake up a storm for the 4th Annual Clean Conference. The recipe I settled on was a classic gingerbread with a Clean Change twist.

Baked goods in honour of improved communications? Yes please.

(Of course if you’re after food for thought without the calories, just go to the conference)..

Get your London Street Food Map while they’re hot..

Always looking for that next pulled pork fix.

I’m currently looking for inspiration in the envelope department, or the stationery cupboard, if you will.

I recently salvaged a stack of envelopes from the early 1990s to the (not literally) present day. A girl can never have *too* many pretty patterned envelopes.

M. Ward’s The First Time I Ran Away.

Forced bulbs.

I vaguely remember a lot of these at school. Pretty, yes, but a bad metaphor for education. Better in the big wide world, by far.

Nan. Just beautiful.

“Requires one egg per mix” is a guilt reduction strategy. Oh sure, it’s a *mix*, but I still have to add something fresh. Ready mixes are the Build-a-Bears of the dessert world.

Eastbourne’s 1960s hotel interiors: inspiring care home design everywhere. But not necessarily in a good way.

One of the greatest hymns ever, visualised.

Happy Easter.

Marina Aurora is one of my favourite food photographers: satisfying start-to-finish recipes in a single shot.

Tasty.

Stationery + Song.

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