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All the bad cats

This is my bad one. Sitting with a wild stare in her eye as she’s been carrying her latest kill around the house while yowling. Loudly. Happily for me, my cat limits her kill to objects that are inanimate. Tunisian slippers, animal keyrings, the mouse from The Gruffalo and now this ghastly small doll that […]

Trend: Highland hipsters

Last week it was my turn to run away to Scotland for a week to ignore technology and coalesce with the air, the lochs, the mountains and the trees. It started with three nights camping – glamping – by Loch Tay. Maybe one night too many for me, but only because the toilet cubicles were a […]

Ceramicist Matthew Warner

Two fridays ago the Cockpit Arts studio in Deptford opened up for a weekend and I gamefully hit it first thing with a hangover and a friend. Very quickly we found ourselves eating comfort food in the cafeteria. I had my very first ever homity pie. I knew nothing of this pie before and it […]

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Happiness is… a new bikini

Up yours British weather. I’m off to Corfu. And my happiness is complete because for the first time in years I am travelling with a bikini that I LOVE. What is required for me to love a thing? As Jill once astutely observed, it really just needs to combine pink and green.

A question about induction hobs

Yeh, so I still live in London. BUT I have been hatching plans to at least have a temporary escape in the shape of a holiday house in the highlands. This has been bubbling over for a few years now and I don’t have much more to say about it at the moment – I’m […]