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Fig
Lots of things come to mind when I consider figs. First is one of my mother's many hilarious go-to phrases in response to 11-year-old protests of mine about unimportant things ('Siubhan, I couldn't...
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Autumn in High Places
I've felt totally disconnected from everything Internet lately: a combination of hearing too many murmurings about Instagram and the death of the blog, doing a lot of very uninspiring work, and the...
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Broguing Again
One of the unexpected highlights of keeping a blog such as this one is that it often provides a very accurate picture of just how long things last. At the moment I'm looking for some...
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Antidote
I hadn't actually noticed this before, at least not to such a degree, but this year, November has arrived and brought the Christmas floodgates crashing down with it. Come November 1 and Christmas trees...
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On birthday cake
Boarding school birthdays were always the very worst, if I remember correctly – I think the six birthdays I spent there have all gathered together in my mind and made me rather dislike birthdays in...
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Hints of sun to come
There's something about these clementines that seems so out of place in snowy January.Outside it is a snowy slushy mess (England does not handle snow well) but here are the colours of the hot summer...
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A bob is a decision
The attributes I admire in others are invariably the things that I am most deficient in: the ability to order in a restaurant and be understood first time, to self-motivate to go running in the cold,...
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Bread
I live with someone who is allergic to yeast. This is a relatively recent discovery, a mystery solved through long trial and error that now feels like the scientific breakthrough of the century....
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The Pressure of Lending
I am not sure about the sentiment, but it is still a nice way to sign a book, I think.Much as I like the inscription though, and much as I want to underline and copy out clever paragraph upon clever...
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Quietly, without really mentioning it to anyone, last month I left Bristol and moved to London. A friend of mine said: 'You never were a simple village girl, you know'. I hope he's right. There's...
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Ropewalk
I have a funny little list in my head of things I've learned about moving to London that I might share here at some stage, in manner of Here is What I Learned in New York City. One of those things is...
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Only In England
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.as Camille Pissarro would say. More than anything else, that was the quotation I was most reminded of at 'Only...
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Nunhead
One of the first book projects I ever worked on was a huge bulky hardback (weighing in at an impressive 1kg, no less), featuring a profile of every single one of London's many cemeteries. It was an...
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Pastificio Mansi
I feel like this post is the internet equivalent of the From Plot to Plate movement – from Giffin Square Food Fair at Deptford Market to my blog in under 4 hours... I could probably quite happily eat...
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Rain
As I left the house, in the sunshine, I did briefly consider unlocking the door again and going back for my umbrella. But I didn't. At the end of Sarah Lyall's New York Timespiece last week about her...
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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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This feels like such an unusual thing to do, where once it was such a usual thing to do... It's been very quiet around here lately, I know. Blame it on 2013 being the death of the blog (though I'm...
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