It is New Year’s Day 2018, and I have many important things to tell you. The first is that New Year’s Eve in Venice is wonderful, and made even more wonderful by spontaneous cocktails at the Danieli and making friends with everyone who works at your favourite local osteria. Next year, you should come. ComeContinue reading “A New Year”
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December 13
We live in a three-bedroom house, Dom and I. But honestly, two people have no need for that many rooms. It’s a perk, having an ironing room and a big study, but it’s not essential. Especially not when you’re living in rural Northamptonshire, with far fewer risks of house parties and zero chance of friendsContinue reading “December 13”
December 1
A few months ago I listened to Jilly Cooper’s Desert Island Disks. The one thing I remember from it (besides all the sexual innuendos) was her insistence that you should always keep a diary. Her reasoning was that when you’re 24 it’s impossible to remember what it was like to be 22, and the onlyContinue reading “December 1”
Mint cream chocolate biscuits
Bloody hell, it really is Christmas. I have a repeated nightmare that’s based around Christmas. The big day suddenly comes into being without any prior warning. Everybody has shopped and planned without me and I sit down to lunch, faced with boiled carrots because I wasn’t there to patronise everybody on the fact that roasted carrotsContinue reading “Mint cream chocolate biscuits”
Coming home
There is the Christmas tree shining into the grey lane. Home is warm and carpeted, with bedside lamps turned on, as always. When I was a child the gentle slump of the car in the drive would always be a bit of a bother. “We’re home.” I’d be half asleep in the backseat, sighing inContinue reading “Coming home”
Joy.
Between my sister and I, there has come about a pretty strict idea on how to do Christmas right. It’s the small things that can drag down my festive cheer, like when people refuse Christmas pudding on the big day (put your taste buds aside and take one for the team, you bunch of Scrooges!)Continue reading “Joy.”
Budapest
As all of my friends and family know, I love Christmas. In fact, to say I love it is an understatement. Every year I throw myself into the festivities until I resemble a mince pie eating, carol singing, mulled wine glugging, deranged vision of The Ghost of Christmas Present, bulging waistline included. So to me,Continue reading “Budapest”
How to do Christmas.
First take food, of course. Quality street by the handful, a platter of cheese that will stink out your fridge for the entirety of the festive period; all of the waist-increasing foods that scream out Christmas. Take bracing walks, across the fields, through the town and past the river that define your childhood. Then, whenContinue reading “How to do Christmas.”
A New Year and New Beginnings
A New Year brings with it the anticipation of what the following twelve months will bring; however it also puts a full stop at the end of our previous chapter. For me, 2010 has been a year of travelling, of education, of work and of food. I started the year off in style, with aContinue reading “A New Year and New Beginnings”
The Kitchen Escape
With Christmas on the horizon and a sudden change in the weather, my heart is pulled towards the kitchen. After watching countless Nigella Lawson videos on Youtube my desire to cook has been re-ignited and now you can be certain that at any given time, food will be on my mind. From spending hours drawing upContinue reading “The Kitchen Escape”
To The Table 