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The G-Plan Diet: lazy and tasty
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
Posted in Entertaining, Family, Food and wine, Friends, Life and romance, Uncategorized
Tagged anchovies, chicken, Chili pepper, Cook, cooking, eggs, family, Food, friends, Garlic, ginger, green beans, Niçoise salad, Olive oil, pancetta, Potato, recipes
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Dial 007 for Urologist: the EAU Congress, Paris
Last week I had an overwhelming sense that my career path and health were inextricably linked, for I suffered my first UTI in over ten years. Not just ouch … super-double-and-treble ouch. I won’t bore you with the details, but … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Health, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Consultant Urologist, HCA Healthcare, Julian Shah, La Marine, NHS Supply Chain, Paris, Peezy, St Emilion
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Spicy rum, wayward cherubs and the artist unzipped
Once upon a time I must have known how to spell ‘prompt’. These days its meaning seems to escape me, and so with more metaphorical Lycra than was decent for “fashionably late”, I landed in the midst of Zyg’s Private … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Friends, Life and romance, Shopping, Uncategorized
Tagged Alan Phillip, Alan Phillips Architecture, Art, Brighton, Jarzembowski, Kraken, Lamps, Leap of Faith, Marblehead Brands, Modelmaking, Party, Putto, Toy, Vintage, Zyg, Zyg Jarzembowski
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Mexico: mariachi, mountains, merriment … and my Girls
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
Posted in Family, Food and wine, Friends, Life and romance, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Christmas, Expedia, La Villada Inn, Lady of the Assumption Oaxaca, Mariachi, Mexican rugs, Mexico, Mexico City, Mezcal, Oaxaca, Plaza Garibaldi, Pyramids, Salsa, Teotihuuacan, Teotitlan
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Bethnal Green Behaviour
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
Posted in Family, Food and wine, Friends, Life and romance, London, Shopping, Uncategorized
Tagged Bethnal Green, Columbia Road, Neigbourly, Uncategorized
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Been spoken for: the wedding suit
Tim has lassoed Sassy Amanda, my soon to be married Best Friend. He’s the bow to her arrow – or perhaps with less poetry and more realism, the brake to her accelerator. Tim is a fine man. Following the success … Continue reading
Posted in Friends, London, Shopping, Uncategorized
Tagged bespoke, claridges, hix, john Pearse, London, made to measure, Meard Street, men's fashion, Mr Start, Rivington Street, Start, Suit (clothing), suits, tailor, tailoring, Timothy Everest, Uncategorized, wedding, Wedding shopping, wedding suit
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