I didn’t understand the quirks of the legal world until I began dealing with Mr. Pear, who is a barrister. The law as an institution shares with Oxbridge a particular culture, a sense of exclusivity, lifelong learning, archaic ritual, funny clothes, and taking dinner in hall. On Friday night I had dinner in one such … Continue reading
Summer is slowly leaving my corner of the world. There were foggy mornings this week; I was grateful for my wool tweed (and to Chalk Farm Antiques for their marvellous stock of second-hand clothes – 100% wool jackets for under £40? I am there), but it’s still light enough to go without a hat. I … Continue reading
Spring has well and truly settled down now, we think. Cold weather breeds such sadness and lethargy in me, you’d think growing up in a cold house whose rooms were half underground and barely warmed with questionable central heating would be character-building. We would have to wear hats and gloves indoors, and most activities were … Continue reading
Last Wednesday I went to the Home Sweet Home book launch at the Hummingbird Bakery’s Spitalfield branch. I’d never been inside before that evening, even though its cuteness is precisely my thing–those kinds of fancy, pretty cupcakes have never really interested me; I only make them because I know people around me like them. I … Continue reading
Obviously the solution to the wind and sleet is to consume more cold things. This is my first and so far my favourite weekly special from Chin Chin this year. Every flavour comes through clearly–fresh banana, little melting bits of dark chocolate, the starchy-sweet middle of a doughy pancake. We chose salted caramel sauce to … Continue reading
My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair, Around my bare, And down the road I goes. – ‘My Beard’, Shel Silverstein. (source) When I saw their Saturday morning spread on Twitter, I had to go to The Fields Beneath right away. Even though much of London … Continue reading
Do you remember The Fields Beneath? They continue to please me. I feel very lucky that my very first local is both awesome and earnest. It is still kind of a shock to go from living in the plain yoghurt suburbs to a place that is within easy walking distance of so many interesting things. … Continue reading
Today the Kentishtowner has a new and quite rightly positive review up of my new local, so I thought I would be hip and current by piggybacking on their post. During September I was very curious about the goings-on in the empty shop space next to Kentish Town West. There was a large sign behind … Continue reading
On Sunday I went to Loy Krathong in Wimbledon with a couple of friends. We all had a really good time – the weather was clear for the most part, the place was full of Thai families enjoying themselves, and it was clear that the stalls and entertainment were mainly for the benefit of the … Continue reading
Let me make a painfully obvious comment on the weather for all those living in Britain right now: it’s cold. Properly cold. You can’t really pretend that it’s bracingly crisp anymore. The night is quick to come. Recently someone came and denuded the grape vines of all their flame-coloured leaves. I found the twisted, jagged, … Continue reading
The Furious Pear Pie 
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