It’s been a while since I ran through how we assembled our kitchen in our narrow, tall, victorian Yorkshire terrace. When we moved in, nearly five years ago, the ground floor was separated into two rooms, living room as soon you entered the front door....
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...
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...
As the child of a mother who brought me up on natural medicines, reiki, astrology and meditation, I think my natural inclination was to ignore what I had been raised with, and carry a sense of faint embarrassment about it all. But they say you...
May I introduce you to one of the loves of my life: my desk. My desk is a little window into what the inner workings of my brain may look like: the books I have stored up in my memory, the textures and shapes that inspire...