Emma and I rocked up at the Fruit Market. The sun was really low, it was really windy, and we were really bloody hungry. We had to eat before the hanger took over. First stop: The Humber Street Gallery for lunch and the Sarah Lucas exhibition. The street was like the rest of Hull in […]
The Hulliday: Part Two
The moment had finally arrived: buffet breakfast time. We went full-pelt. Cooked breakfast, Danish pastries, yogurts and raspberry compote, glasses of juice and two cups of tea. Our first error of the day was forgetting to bring our bags to breakfast with us, as we had grand plans to fill them with stolen pain au chocolat and […]
The Hulliday: Part One
I’ve been living ‘up north’ for over a decade now, and despite having covered a lot of ground in Greater Manchester and Yorkshire, I still hadn’t ticked Hull off my list. This was in part due to it winning the title of ‘Crappest Town’ in 2003 (which lingered in the back of my mind ever […]
FRIENDS: Phoebe Buffay’s Cookie Recipes
Well, I believe I said in my last post that the next recipe on my list would be a Beastie Boys inspired recipe of ‘Bum-cheese on rye with ham and proscuitto’. Wishing to keep the recipe as authentic as possible, I had the idea to use Stinking Bishop cheese as it is meant to smell […]
Angela Chase: The Crimson Glow Brownies disaster and Reheated Spaghetti
Following up from Marcel the monkey’s Banana Bread recipe from the FRIENDS Cookbook, I thought I would do a recipe inspired by My So Called Life since it’s one of my all-time favourite TV shows. I’ve made a long list of recipes I want to make inspired by characters in the show, but I thought I’d […]
FRIENDS: Marcel’s Banana Bread
You may remember the week I ate like Cher. No? Well, you’d be forgiven for forgetting since it happened just shy of two years ago now. This is how rubbish I have been at blogging. I had grand intentions of following a novelty celebrity recipe book each month but got as far as doing one […]
My love for: The Teenage Bedroom
In the first house I grew up in, my teenage brother had to move out of his bedroom so that I could move in to it. He left behind a postcard of a pair of boobs blue-tacked to the side of a chest of drawers. The garage got converted, and this became his new room. […]
‘The Great War’ by Sarah Fordham age 9. 11th January 1993
Below is a story I wrote at primary school, complete with spelling mistakes. Murder, plot twists and herbal tea. ‘A storie for 7-8yrs boy or girl’ The Great War 11th January 1993 It all started when a great king called Sedric rulled a land. He was called Sedric because his family couldn’t think of […]
Inspiration: Kit Williams
Discovering Kit Williams came just at the right time. I came across him a few years ago when I first read about his book Masquerade, but it was only recently that I delved a little deeper into his work, bought his other book ‘The Bee on the Comb’ (also known as ‘the book without a […]
In memory of Gwendoline Macrone.
The year after graduating from university is a bloody horrible one for most people. I had made no plans other than thinking I would move in with my boyfriend at the time, but instead we broke up. My parents moved from East Sussex to the other side of Kent where I knew no one. I […]