My shop has been slow to build and is still relatively small. The reason for this is probably down to my very specific criteria and very specific taste. My criteria: Do I personally own and use this? Is it beautiful? Is it useful? Is it delicious? Is it from an independent...
In March this year I reached out to a list of twelve women. I knew some of them in person, and some of them purely online. I asked them if they would be interested in talking to me about their creative path for a podcast...
One of the things I love to do in life is to assemble beautiful things - which of course also applies to assembling beautiful people around a beautiful meal at the kitchen table. After assessing some of the pieces in the shop, I realised that they...
Towards the end of summer, I made my way up through the highlands on my way to Skye, to catch a boat to the Shiant Isles. I was about to spend six days on a remote, uninhabited island with no infrastructure, in the company of...
Six years ago I became pregnant with our first baby Alma. At twenty weeks she was diagnosed with DiGeorges syndrome and an interrupted aortic arch. After researching the possible outcomes of this diagnosis we chose to have a termination at six months in the womb....
My friend Laura and I are launching an online course, specifically for women, including trans women and non binary folk, starting on September the 6th, the night before the new moon, ending on the September full moon on the 20th. It’s an introductory two week...
Slow Roasted Courgette, Smashed Potatoes and Tomato, Mozzarella and Aubergines Slow Roasted Courgette Ingredients Four whole courgettes A handful of cherry tomatoes, sliced. Garlic Olive Oil Lemon Parsley Cashews Salt Method Slow roast whole courgettes at 160 C degrees, until soft. Take them out of the oven, slice down the middle without parting the top or...
Before we were parents, Jon and I had a lot of idiotic opinions about how to raise kids. ‘They’re just going to have to slot into our lives’ ‘I grew up without a tv or lot’s of toys so we won’t have a tv and all our...
How do you approach books? Do you hoard them, keeping every book you have ever read as a trophy and a treasure, a way of remembering the precious moments you spent in it’s world? Or do you see books as transient vehicles of information and...
A while ago, I entered into a heated (on my side, they were perfectly calm and collected) discussion with an independent sustainable clothes company. I had bought some fabric from them which had arrived enclosed in a huge, fancy box with embossed font on the...