I happily went for many years without eating a carrot. It’s not that I disliked them particularly – they have a pleasingly vibrant colour for a vegetable – it’s just that they never played any part in my deliberations when cooking or planning meals. My friend J, who is a vegetarian, eats enough carrots for [...]
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what makes a perfect birthday?
Time spent with friends. A cycle ride along the canal in clement weather. A teacake and coffee outside at a garden centre. A longboat going through bratch locks. A deliciously foamy bath. A proper tea with competing children, raucious behaviour, jelly, cheese and pineapple on sticks (served ’70′s style), and other fabulous things. A chocolate [...]
Neighbour Envy
One of my friends, we’ll call her Daphne, as it will rankle, mentioned in passing yesterday that she has a new neighbour who is transgendered. She was unsure whether to refer to said neighbour as he or she: we thought probably ‘she’ was more appropriate, since it is what the neighbour is, but for an [...]
Shedding the Past
In what world does a garden shed represent the unlikely synthesis of ideas from two 20th century feminist writers: Virginia Woolf and Betty Friedan? Why in my world of course. But it’s not completely fanciful; I have objectively verifiable evidence in that at least 3 of my friends on the cusp of middle age are [...]
