I should practice a bit more of what I preach. I’ve been doing a swathe of radio interviews in Australia in the last week or so for the release of ‘A Suitcase and a Spatula‘. It’s been pretty entertaining trying to enact what I used to spend a lot of my previous life in PR […]
feeding a crowd
I am quite keen on cutting corners. My sister will never let me forget that in my fledgling years I persisted on wearing my nightgown the wrong way out every second night. It made sense to me. Once I’d shirked it over my head in the morning, it inverted itself. And so a labour saving […]
There’s a clock that’s ticking above my head. It whispers and snickers a bit. It’s all knowing and isn’t afraid of indulging in a spot of schadenfreude. It may even tock with a slight German lilt. In fact I’m sure that’s what I heard the other morning at 4.18 am. It’s reminding me that along […]
It’s a very strange thing to realise that the being you’re harbouring can now hear. I’ve only seen you three times – the first time you looked like a mass that had got caught in the bottom of the sink, punctuated by a heartbeat and some static. The second time, when we first saw […]
The film: The dish: The reason: Def: Zero Dark Thirty: Military terminology referring to 30 minutes past 12, or a time when it’s just darn dark outside. One might think these falafels are the perfect match for Kathryn Bigelow’s mysteriously titled filmic hunt for Osama because it takes exactly twelve and a half minutes to […]