Category Archives: Family

The G-Plan Diet: lazy and tasty

Posted on March 4, 2012 by fortewinks

The most important words between people are often exchanged over the table. Food is currency. Food is glue. Food is the stuff that brokers and builds friendships and relationships of any hue; and if they need celebrating – or even … Continue reading →

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Mexico: mariachi, mountains, merriment … and my Girls

Posted on January 15, 2012 by fortewinks

Bethnal Green is where we usually congregate with family and friends to spend Christmas, exchange gifts and enjoy hearty food. But this year, we abandoned our home in East London to gather in Mexico, for what transpired to be the … Continue reading →

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Bethnal Green Behaviour

Posted on May 30, 2011 by fortewinks

Just over three years ago The Girls and I left the Shoreditch loft that had been our home for some thirty months and into a less exuberant, much smaller,  three-up two-down Bethnal Green cottage, half a mile East. The moment … Continue reading →

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Oestrogen: mid-life elixir is

Posted on April 18, 2011 by fortewinks

I am forty-eight and I am smiling. I have a spring in my step, a twinkle in my eye, focus in my day. I’m in control; I have a new drug of choice. If you’re a woman hurtling inexorably towards … Continue reading →

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