There are times to pull your belt in. Late November is one of those times. Christmas is just waiting to shimmy across the threshold with all of its excesses in tow. I’m talking mince pies. Stocking stuffers. Celebratory negronis (let’s not forget that hot on the heels of the festive season is the realisation that […]
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I’m a pretty easy, cheap date. Sure, you can fly me to the other side of the globe and take me out to dinner. You can seat me at one of the best restaurants in the world- happily. Heck, if you even felt like you needed to make a list of the top ten restaurants […]
There’s a great line in one of my favourite 90’s films; ‘I never did mind about the little things’. I’m not a big one for violence – real or simulated. (The Hungry One now refuses to watch Game of Thrones with me. He says my squeamish squirming is too distracting. Meanwhile, I would quite like […]
A meal in two chapters. MONDAY: At least dinner was pretty. It was pleasing to look down at and it was politically correct. There was no meat on the plate. Beyond that- it was thrifty- the tops of the heirloom purple organic carrots were re purposed in the pesto. The seeds were pepitas- the very […]
It’s pumpkin time. It’s what they said to Cinderella. The clock struck midnight. The party is over. It’s time for it all to come to a close. Nb, if someone could pass that message onto the large-burnished-winter-squash-sized stowaway that’s continually strumming on a a nerve that connects to my upper right thigh-I’d be most […]