This is my entry for today's Mass Observation project. I am slightly concerned that it comes across like a pastiche of the ultimate unknowing middle class parent, and that this is the impression that will echo down the centuries. :/ ( Read more... )

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This beautiful doorstep is just minutes from Brighton Station. Nice Italian Colleague and I were plotting over how we could do the same to my own doorstep, until I remembered that we're leasehold, and the doorstep is communal. Presumably even doing the back step would be against the terms of our lease. :(


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I am at this very moment enjoying a plate of six Devonshire cheeses, plus crackers (one caraway, one wholemeal) from the Ticklemore Street cheese shop in Totnes. We went in there on Thursday and, faced with the bewildering plethora behind their counter, I asked them to choose me a selection of the strongest-tasting examples: one goat's, two blue, ( Read more... )