I did a short but telling experiment last week. I forced myself to concentrate on the number of times I apologise during the course of a day. I lost count before I’d even finished the school run. I was sorry that I’d put out black tights, not navy ones; that I was cooking poached eggs […]
I did my first Booktime Brunch show on Chiltern Radio yesterday. This morning I listened back to it and oh my dears. The skin-crawling horror of hearing your own recorded voice. Your lack of technical know-how writ large in dead air. Your beautifully-laid plans, wrecked by an unpressed button. The show goes out live, so […]
Pink Himalayan salt. Sometimes, when things are not going the Way We Would Like, changing something humdrum and boring for a magical pink version can be surprisingly uplifting. At some point during half term, I was rushing between depositing some of my children in one place and picking up some other of my children in […]
It’s half term this week. The 10yo has been on a choir tour, and the 13 and 11 yos were at a debating workshop, which left me with a day in London with the loquacious and determined 8yo. She had ten carefully saved pounds to spend, which meant a ceremonial donning of sequinned skirt, glittery […]
If you put flour and water in a jar and leave them for anywhere between a week and ten days, the natural yeasts in the flour will begin to grow. And if, for a few days after that, you discard half of what’s in the jar and feed the rest with more flour and more […]
