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On Portraits
Last year I was given this little book – it's a catalogue of portraits entered into the Taylor Wessing Portrait competition and displayed at the National Portrait Gallery in London. I've had it around...
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Bits & Pieces
Spring never usually has this effect on me – I'm usually more of an autumn girl – but this time round I've been unable to resist the temptation of little springy bits and pieces. It might be some small...
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Blog Fog
Typically, I finally manage two posts in one week, and then get snowed under the next (not literally, thankfully) and manage none at all. One day I will be a regular two posts a week girl.Nothing...
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Twee Forgive Me
This long weekend I was able to get up to London for the first time in an age (probably a year) and it was lovely – like someone else's life entirely, although one I'd be quite happy to take on. The...
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Friday
At the end of this seriously hectic week, I'm definitely in need of a cocktail this evening, and I've been thinking about this one ever since Ben and I made it as part of the cocktail masterclass we...
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Preparations
I always used to be quite blasé about travelling. When I was at school, and the time came to take a flight back home to Islay, the tutors would drop me off at the airport hours and hours ahead of time...
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The Brooklyn Way
My uncharacteristic over-planning paid off, and I made it to New York. I like it here.I'm here for a while, so it should be less frantic than a typical New York 'holiday', but still, it's hard to get...
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Asparagus
Lately, we realised that Ben is only ever really happy when he gets to cook things. This of course mystifies me completely, as I never really feel the need to cook anything at all, but all the same, we...
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Purpose
Wherever I am, I am always searching for some kind of purpose, or larger reason for being there. For some reason, I always feel like I need to create some kind ofjob.This feeling is especially apparent...
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Governors Island
I kind of knew that going to Governors Island on opening weekend when the weather is 27 degrees would be a mistake – and it kind of was and it kind of wasn't. It was mobbed, there were rented-bicycle...
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The Last Few Days in New York
Before I got there, I thought I would arrive in New York and feel just as comfortable with it as if it were London. In reality, it took at least three weeks for that to properly happen. Those first...
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The Baking of Eggs
I think I'm posting this partly just to remind myself just how amazing Eggs in Pots are, and to stop my brain from picturing them as miserable, grey 1970s-cookbook fare. Baking eggs is so satisfying,...
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Haul
Nothing signifies quite how different New York and Bristol are to me the way my new umbrella does. It's funny really, as when it rained in NY, I huddled under a ridiculously tiny umbrella all month –...
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Wimbly
I'm always careful who I admit my obsession with Wimbledon to. Mainly because it's such a shamefully serious one. It started with school summer holidays, when there were only four television channels...
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Telegram
I've often seen people talking about getting to a point every so often where they feel 'blog-lost', and while I only do a post once a week (at best!), that has never actually happened to me before,...
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Article 9
In May I went to New York hoping to learn some things: about the world, about myself, about life in general. Lofty goals, probably, but in fact I did learn things. They may be self-evident to some (in...
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Summer On/Summer Off
Summer in England is pretty fickle. It's not like summer in Scotland, when, if it happens at all, its more of a special treat – a bonus that you get if you've behaved for the rest of the year. In...
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Quiet
Given its title, it seems strange that this book should have jumped out at me the way it did. But sometimes you only notice the things you want to notice, like when you learn something new and then you...
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Chocolate box
My sister recently visited Pemberley, Mr Darcy's mansion in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride & Prejudice (more commonly known as Lyme Park in the Peak District), and so, not to be outdone, this...
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Kino
There are few places in Bristol that feel like they're not in Bristol (which is a city escapism that I quite like). Cafe Kino is one of them – for me, it could be New York, or London, or maybe even...
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