We’re supporting our student son, but he just lazes about. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa Our 21-year-old son is a student who is about to start third year. We are supporting him financially with his accommodation, he also has…
Waiting for baby. New Statesman.
I am not alone. In my tummy, curled up and waiting for a moment to unfurl and press the exit button, is a baby. If being…
Windows of the mind. The Guardian
I’d always wanted a loft, perhaps fuelled by watching at an impressionable age films in which they featured. Ten years ago, I got one. The only…
Excess Baggage with John McCartney
Here I am talking about fishing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage/index_20081011.shtml
Papa was an ice cream maker. Intelligent Life.
It wasn’t my first taste of ice cream, but it was the first ice cream I remember. My mother made it, and she set the bar…
Let the new knowledge in.
The five men boarded the flight from Sardinia to London. They were all members of a steel band, but because the flight was full they had…
Why I still breastfeed my four year old. The Independent.
In December 2004, I wrote in these pages about how I found myself “still breastfeeding” a 14-month-old, when previously I had viewed “extended breastfeeders” as a…
Rod, I salute your train set. Published in The Guardian.
What a service prejudices can sometimes provide. Rod Stewart is pictured with a copy of Model Railroader in his car and easy headlines are made, “Do…
The Queen Mother taught me how to sew beautifully. Published in the New Statesman.
I may have mentioned, in passing, that I was once seamstress to the Queen Mother. This is not exactly true, because it evokes an image of…
Annalisa Barbieri 
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