Monthly Archives: December 2013

the year turns – garlic soup

  My birthday is on 1 January, possibly the most pants day of the year.  When I was small it didn’t seem quite so bad – little chums in smocked vyella and scratchy cardis would present themselves for an orgy … Continue reading

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countdown to christmas

Is it a particularly female complaint, this seasonal dystopia?  Still dressed in the mourning weeds of the lost summer we are bounced into the queue which snakes towards the never satiated maw of Christmas.  I don’t mean the wonderful bits, … Continue reading

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