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Month: January 2017

Flight

For MKK   I  have been racking my brains trying to remember which was the first flight I ever took, and it’s been a really difficult journey down memory lane.  I have up til now thought I could remember everything, and now it transpires that I can’t.  So I was going through all the holidays […]Read Post ›

Charlotte

For CH Apple Charlotte is one of my favourite foods. Szarlotka in Polish it has a magical texture of just cooked apples, syrupy liquid which has not quite solidified on a crumbly sweet pastry base. Delicious. Not to be confused with the Polish cocktail szarlotka which is a heady mixture of bisongrass vodka and apple juice. […]Read Post ›

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Coffee machine

For AC I love coffee. I have been drinking instant coffee since I was five and the real stuff since I went to Spain when I was seventeen. A delightful addiction, I like it strong and black, though when I was little my mother used to pour in lots of Carnation milk (made from the […]Read Post ›

The missing ink

By Philip Hensher. Andrzej gave me this book for Mother’s Day last year. It’s a book about handwriting, of all things. Very significant, I thought, as he has the most beautiful handwriting – or at least he did when he was at primary school – it’s changed a bit since then, I think, and mine […]Read Post ›

Happy New Year

Every day is the beginning of a new year, or a new century or new millennium. The date is just an arbitrary convention. Yet we insist on trying to change our lives on January 1st each year. Why? I have already, as I started to type this, broken resolution no 1: do not procrastinate; do […]Read Post ›

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