Day release

You know me: always happy to find a reason to turn my heels on the never-reducing pile of ironing, stick the dehumidifier onto its noisiest setting, and leave the house.  Actually that’s a dastardly lie; if the truth be told I’m a terrible stay-at-home, cheered no end to sit in front of the fire, shouting [...]

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Tit for tat

On this last day of the Christmas break it is customary to be realistic about some of the more useless gifts one was given just over a week ago. If I were ever to put up decorations, it’s about now I’d be taking them down, so instead I shall amass a small pile of kindly [...]

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Fire & Knives

The entirely beautiful food magazine Fire & Knives has published a piece by me on the most astonishing person I’ve ever met, Sir Clement Freud.  If you’re not already a subscriber please do become one: despite my presence in its pages there are actually some very fine people writing for it and the object itself [...]

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Doing it without pictures to help

There is something intensely silly about cooking on the radio, not quite as daft as a ventriloquist act having his own wireless show, but getting that way, nevertheless.  Woman’s Hour loves the occasional studio item where somebody produces sizzling noises from a corner of the studio and then a short while later Jenny Murray coos [...]

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