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Posts in November, 2016
I have no shame in getting ready for Christmas as soon as the clocks go back. Extra Christmas lights have been ordered, several but not all presents bought and the pudding is about to be made this weekend on stir up Sunday (I use the classic Delia Christmas pudding recipe and add glace cherries because I am at heart a small child). With a bun in the oven for the...
I'm exhausted today from watching the US 2016 election unfold all night, and the cat-arse-mouthed orange-tinged fear clown Donald Trump become elected as the 45th US president. I've had one tearful outburst, self-medicated with cake and hot chocolate and run through the whole gamut of the Kubler-Ross model of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. What I quickly cam back to after running through this list of five handy...
If you've already caught on, I'm nuts about gardening. I had the plan for my first garden in my head for years before we could afford to own our own in London, I grew up touring advanced tree nurseries, helping to take care of our own large property and doing other people's gardens as a family. I turned the bramble patch we bought in south-east London into something respectable and...
A brilliant friend who's not yet been blessed with having her nights, looks, vagina, stomach muscles, social life destroyed with a new baby asked me what she should buy for her sister who's just popped out a glorious little cherub. At the time of the request I myself was/am 6 weeks off the due date for baby number two, so I'm well-placed to be fantasising about all the gifts that...