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A kitchen conversation – 100 words

January 23, 2023 By Ellen

A kitchen conversation What do I fancy? Cheese on toast that meltingly enveloping comfort. Ice cream bracingly headachy cold turning to creamy sweet. Bacon strong saltiness and fearless consumption of fat. Toast and jam crunchy, sticky, childish comfort especially dripping butter and cut into triangles. Biscuits oh, the siren call of the Hobnob illicit, delicious […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, food, greed, secrets

92 words

December 2, 2021 By Ellen

One of my favourite sounds is the silence that flops onto my table when heads bend over plates and forks get to work. The attention to the cook’s labours, the answer to hunger’s rumble. For a while the belly filling is the only thing until someone remembers that we’re not animals allowed to respond to […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, cooking, creative writing, food

Things I think about ‘best before’ dates

November 13, 2020 By Ellen

Shops have a vague idea when the produce will be past it, then they subtract about a week and call it the ‘best before’ date. It seems pretty unscientific for fresh things and almost entirely meaningless for canned food. Especially so for water or salt – which don’t, as far as I know, go off. […]

Filed Under: things I learned from my children today Tagged With: best before, cooking, food, in my life, in the world, My Life, sell-by, shops

Coronavirus: the education continues

April 21, 2020 By Ellen

Can you believe that it’s more than a month since we started this particular adventure? Back in early March we didn’t know what furlough, self-isolation, social distancing and PPE were. Remember? A different country. Well, we’re lucky to be healthy and adjusting to this life. And the education continues. Here’s what I’ve learned. Do not […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, children, coronavirus, Covid 19, family, food, golf courses, pizza, Something happened in my life, things I've learned, work

Coronavirus: We’re all in the same boat

March 29, 2020 By Ellen

Once I was a sailor. Or, at least, I spent a couple of years messing about on boats. It left me with fond memories and a vague hankering to put the oilskins back on and untie the lines, but mostly I don’t think of it. Until now, that is… It started way back the last […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned Tagged With: advice, coronavirus, family, food, in my life, in the world, ocean, on my mind, provisioning, sailing, sea, Something happened in my life, travel

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