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VEGETABLES a book playlist
The extremely lovely Cerys Matthews asked me to choose some music that relates to my new book VEGETABLES for when I appeared on her 6music show today…
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My new book VEGETABLES: a virtual book launch
I’m very excited to be having a virtual launch for my new book VEGETABLES, and I really hope you can make it. It’s on 25 June 2024, at 6pm UK time. I’ll…
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1980: Happy Christmas, War Is Over
43 years ago today
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A small forest garden
August felt like a good time not to send newsletters to pile up like issues of the local free newspaper on the doormat for when you get back from…
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Figs: a fruit and a herb
In 1988, I ate my first fresh fig. It was handed to me by the person who’d grown it on the Greek island of Santorini. It was melting, succulent and with…
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1979: Boys Keep Swinging
We all have our reasons for stealing. Terry is in a hurry to grow up, Peter spends too much time attached to a machine for his lungs, Steve just likes a…
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A joyful weekend at home
Every early winter, I lay a fire, a teetering Jenga of kindling, a waxed fire lighter at its heart like the boiled egg in the log of luncheon meat the…
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A year gone
And some of what's to come
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I'm in a lemon verbena state of mind
as Billy Joel almost said
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One rather than a hundred
I’ve never been much of a July and August kind of guy. When you have skin like supermarket pastry, it takes three weeks’ sunbathing to stop being…
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Four pies, four years, four goals
Four years ago today, the greatest match ever played*. In many ways, that it was the greatest match - that it was football - isn’t crucial. Before the…
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Weekly window into our gardens
Morning morning morning. I've just got back from walking the dog. At least I think it was our dog I was walking, as it was so misty I could hardly see…
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