Random Recipe Adventure, Week 2
The Random Recipe Adventure 2018 will in future be known as the year of the Great West Norwood Cookbook Cull. …
Random Recipe Adventure, Week 1
The Random Recipe Adventure 2018 will in future be known as the year of the Great West Norwood Cookbook Cull. …
The Random Recipe Adventure
I got a cookbook for Christmas. Maybe you did too. Mine was, almost inevitably, Nigel Slater’s The Christmas Chronicles. It’s …
Bit of a messy ‘un
Olivier Messiaen would have been 109 today. In part to commemorate his birthday, and in part because it seems Why …
Ceci n’est pas un blog
I do apologise. There will be no blog this week. I’ve been away for the weekend, you see, celebrating a …
Practically perfect in every way
Perfection is subjective. This thought occurred to me at about 9.21 on Friday evening. We were at the National Theatre’s …
Buy the book
Hi, my name is Lev. It’s three days since I bought a book. Hi Lev. I buy books like other …
Autumn, valour and human leg slalom
The week has passed autumnally. Yesterday, deserted by the muse, I put out a twitter plea. ‘If you have any …
Cover story
The week has passed, looking neither to the left nor the right, and scurrying through in the hope that it …
A year ago today…
…it was cloudy. I have the photos to prove it. The plan for the day: up early (the emptiness of …