In an old box sits mum’s scrapbook – labelled, in her neat writing, “A Few Tried and Tested Recipes”
As I read her instructions for an "Easy Boxing Day Buffet", I wonder how different Christmas will feel this year.
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When the underbelly of Brighton reveals itself, all I have to keep me safe is a kebab
Only Friday and Saturday nights are usually lively in the city, but the night before lockdown the air is thrilling…
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The novelty of idle time has worn off. Life in a pandemic is repetitive, and I am bored
The sociologist Martin Doehlemann lays out four types of boredom, and I have experienced them all over lockdown.
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An expired laptop is yet further proof that Fortune’s Wheel still has me in a spin
October has hit me with an array of misfortunes, yet with a happy development in my personal life, things are…
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Caleb Femi: “Poetry is the art of the people”
The poet and former Young People’s Laureate for London discusses police racism, growing up on the North Peckham estate, and working…
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A hard winter is coming – but in the garden, autumn’s pleasures are still there for the taking
Feeling a bit unproductive, I put on my boots and head outside to push broad beans into the earth.
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Down at the shoreline at night, the navigation lights on the horizon start speaking to me
During my evening jaunts, I revel in the crashing waves at my feet and the inscrutable Morse code of the…
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This England: The cones hotline
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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