Food, stories and experiences, season by season
The other day we took the bus to Flushing. We kept glimpsing it across the bay on our evening walk along the water. Noticing it because of the peculiar way it always seemed to be illuminated in a sunbeam while everything around it was ensconced in gloom. If that alone wasn’t enough to intrigue our curiosity [...]
I like the summer days that begin and end with a sweater. Days when I wake to air blowing in through the open window that makes me shiver and pull the covers round me a little tighter. That end with cool breezes and damp night air that settle around you like a fog. When the [...]
“January’s okay. I like it in fact. It’s the proper winter month.” Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall O Winter! Ruler of the inverted year, I crown thee kind of intimate delights, fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, and all the comforts that the lovely roof of undisturbed retirement, and the hours of long uninterrupted evening, know.” William Cowper January is [...]
