There are things that are strangely comforting when you’re knocked up. It becomes comforting to be kicked up under a rib. Particularly after your now-head-of-cauliflower-sized stowaway goes silent on you for a 12 hour stretch. That happened late last week. Like a stealth submarine, he just blipped below transmission level. After a few hours I […]
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Sometimes dishes come from escapist inspiration. It’s about conjuring a memory of time spent away, and recreating the experience of ‘other’. You might write elegiac blog posts about them (and perhaps put a whole bunch of them in a book). Some of those meals find their way into anecdotes which you store up for dull […]
Some days, are shockers. There was a great book that my mum and dad used to read to us when we were little; ‘ Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day‘. “I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there’s gum in my hair and when I got out […]
A while ago we needed to talk about the curse of googling when growing a human. Now I think we might need to talk about the weeping. Seriously. I may be one small part English, but it seems I did not inherit a stiff upper lip. While I like to think of myself as generally […]
There’s so much promise in an avocado. So much hope, so much unknown. It’s the ultimate fruit for the philosophy of ‘cut it and see’. For as much as the crest gently exhales under pressure, and the outside look unblemished, the interior truth remains a mystery (for a great piece by Katy Salter on the […]