The taste of al fresco. Does food taste better outdoors? Intelligent Life.
The dream and the reality are never so divorced as when dining al fresco. As soon as someone says “let’s eat outdoors”, the spirits lift. The…
Black Friday for Catholics. The Guardian.
Growing up in an Italian Catholic family, we never ate meat on a Friday. (My mother doesn’t eat meat on a Wednesday either, which is seriously…
This sat nav of the labour ward is driving us the wrong way. The Guardian.
When I gave birth to my first child in 2003, I was as prepared as I could be: positions, breathing, birth plan. What I hadn’t accounted…
Jean Liedloff, author of The Continuum Concept, obituary. The Guardian.
Jean Liedloff, who has died aged 84, was the author of The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost (1975), in which she outlined her belief…
Discard this common fisheries policy and stop this waste. The Guardian.
It was 14 years ago that I first started writing about the state of our fish stocks, how ludicrous the common fisheries policy (CFP) was, how…
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…
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