This week has been a Good Week. That’s a nice thing to write. I think the reason I stopped blogging for a bit was, I felt a bit panicky and out of control – with food, with writing, with life in general. I felt like I never had enough time or energy for everything – […]
Author: lucyayrton
For Truly Terrible Colds, or Other Times Everything Is Wrong
First, find a lemon. If a wrinkled up, sad little one that’s been sitting on the kitchen windowsill is all you have, then use that. Try to be more optimistic. Select your mug. I chose my husband’s superhero mug. Pow! It’ll be fine, really. Roll your lemon on the worktop and then chop it in […]
Facing Friday – Wedding Planning Hyperdrive
The wedding is next week. BLOODY HELL. Next. Week. There is a merry crapload to do, and it is exciting and fun and knackering. If I’m honest, I’ve always kind of liked the show week/exam season feeling of “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I have SO much to do!”. Even though I moan about it all over the shop, […]
Facing Friday – Queen of the Textiles
I read True Grit by Charles Portis. Oooof. What a brilliant book. It tells, all from her perpective, the story of Mattie, a fourteen year old girl who launches a pursuit of the man who killed her father. It’s a Western, I suppose. Mattie is wonderful and the writing is spare and tight and perfect. […]
Ridiculously Healthy Lunch Soup
I always tell myself that I am going to make myself soup to take to lunch. Delicious, wholesome nourishing soup! Knocked up in 20 minutes in my own kitchen, meeting my nutritional needs perfectly, not full of double cream (I KNOW IT’S DELICIOUS, COVENT GARDEN SOUP CO, BUT IT’S NOT FOR EVERY DAY, OKAY?) and […]
7 Bloody Brilliant Facts About Brian Blessed
All taken from the early chapters of Absolute Pandemonium by Brian Blessed, which I have been listening to as a wholesome soundtrack to making my bunting. Brian Blessed’s first word was “bugger”, during an altercation with another baby over a rattle. Brian Blessed is a “fully trained cosmonaut”. When he was a little boy, Brian […]
Facing Friday – Starmen
What a terrible week to be a British national treasure, eh? RIP Bowie and Rickman. Your contribution to UK culture was massive, in both cases. It is a funny thing, to see, and to participate in, the grieving of someone you’ve never met. Sometimes comforting, sometimes slightly stifling somehow. Often annoying. I can’t help thinking, […]
Blogmas Day 12 – Wildly Ambitious Gingerbread Biscuits
Last week on of my friends gave the Sweet Tooth by Lily Vanilli – a charming baking book full of preposterous sweet eats such as “Popping Candy Fool’s Gold Chocolates” and “Bacon and Maple Syrup Teacakes”. She said it might come in useful for my blogging. You bet your arse it will, Jen. This kind […]
Blogmas Day 11 – Things Of The Year
As is traditional at this time of year, I have been reflecting on the things I have achieved and enjoyed through the last 12 months. Today, a tour of things I have enjoyed. Achievements is more of an essay than a cute list to scroll down while you’re meant to be proofing the end of […]
Blogmas Day 10 – How To Erase A Hangover With Makeup
I am so sorry, I appear to have fallen behind with Blogmas. I skipped Friday to go to Brighton and get drunk with some teachers on the last day of term, and then on Saturday I couldn’t move because no one drinks like teachers on the last day of term. They make George Best look […]