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…
Yes, we do need to know. Published in The Guardian.
When I was pregnant, caesareans didn’t figure in my thinking. I neither considered nor planned for one: they were for celebrities or women on the verge…
Grin and bare it, The New Statesman
There used to be a time when we had the looks we were born with. This changed with the invention of something called plastic surgery and…
You will never have to worry about your wit or conversation being sharp as long as your clothes are. The Guardian
Carefully lower your paper and let your eyes fall upon the first person you see. What’s your first impression? Posh, pikey, yukky or yummy? (Looking in…
“Are you STILL breastfeeding?” The Independent.
“Do you remember,” asked my friend Alex as we both indulged in Margheritas two weeks ago, “how you used to say women who did it for…
Know your cod and plaice. Published in The Guardian.
If there are three things guaranteed to induce white noise between your ears, it’s anything to do with the EU, fishing quotas and maps of the…
Annalisa Barbieri 
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