November 13, 2022
It’s been such a mild autumn that the beetroot is still growing as fast as I can pick it and I might even be able to push my luck and have it fresh from the ground at Christmas. Elsewhere in the garden, an apricot seed I planted some years ago just to see what would […]
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November 6, 2022
Gathering the orders for a takeaway Wagamama I remember my daughter’s cautionary warning about the “Hot Chicken Katsu Curry”, so I’m surprised when she, like me, chooses it. “This is as much adrenaline as I want,” she says and we laugh our way through what is, even for someone who enjoys heat, a decidedly spicy […]
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October 30, 2022
On a train from London, the darkness flies past studded by lights from suburban windows. I’m reading a report about an imminent slump in property prices and I think about the house that my late in-laws have, in the recent past, left uninhabited but far from empty. The furniture is gone but there is still […]
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October 23, 2022
The dogs won’t stop wrestling on the bed while I’m trying to work. I lose patience and settle one of them downstairs. There are a lot of bananas in the fruit bowl and this makes me anxious because if there’s one thing I can’t stand more than food waste it’s an overripe banana. While I […]
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October 16, 2022
I may be significantly overstating the value of this post if you’ve been attracted simply by reading the title but I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what “recovery” in a mental health sense really is and how on earth we “do” it. Two things this week have brought the subject of recovery into prominence. […]
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