I have no talent for gardening, there’s no use pretending. But I’ve developed an obsession with my garden. That’s because my friends Non and Helen have actually planted something in it for me. Each morning I check on my white aliums to see how fluffy and camp they’ve become. Here they were yesterday, bursting to […]
Month: May 2010
Cooking sculpture
I’m puzzling over something. A friend wants to know why I ‘only write about food’ on these pages? What kind of block-headed word is ‘only’? The novelist Lionel Shriver says that ‘the impulse to cook is the same as the impulse to write books and do sculpture’. I’m not mad about her books or her […]
Taking a sandwich for a walk
There’s no such thing as a walk that’s not improved by a snack. I took an apple with me to the post box this morning and a piece of cheese to the Polling Station on Thursday. The best kind of walking snack is one that can fit in your pocket – none of that rucksack/bag/basket […]