Photo: Lisboans visit the two-week Book Festival set up near the Gulbenkian Museum last June. Yesterday afternoon, as a lovely antidote to the first department meeting of this new term, the Poetry Reading Group comprising…
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Let me hand the mike over to my daughter, Megan, also known as Girlcook when she comments and as Dramatic Sprout when she blogs. She’s so much more knowledgeable about food (what with being a…
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When I finally tried to articulate, the other day, some misgivings I’ve increasingly been having when I occasionally write about fashion/style, I had even more misgivings about putting these thoughts into black marks on a…
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When I first began, tentatively, to write here about what I wore (starting with shoes, a safe place for me), I was pleased to find a community in which chatting about contemporary fashion and personal…
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Good ferry reading I just finished: Nicci French’s Until It’s Over. I’ve always enjoyed this writing pair’s mysteries (Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of married journalists, Nicci Gerrard and Sean French),…
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