Southside!

So, we’d just about given up on moving – the market is terrible, our house is charming and cosy, we’re living on a shoestring at the moment. All things pointed to a snug winter in Brunswick, and yet an art deco flat has fallen into our laps like some delapidated plum.
I’m inclined to credit my [...]

Food and drink round-up

Since assessment has finished, I’ve found myself on a cooking rampage. In the last week or so, I’ve made (apart from normal breakfasts and dinners and things); mushroom ragout with soft polenta; gnocchi; hot cross buns; rhubarb cake; plum cake; scones; and two semi-experimental loaves of bread, which turned out a bit like damper after [...]

Not dead yet

Lest you think I have succumbed to tonsillitis, I just wanted to assure you that I am not dead. Yet. I may be by the end of this essay – I just read an abstract containing the following sentence:
French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu rejected philosopher Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of Immanuel Kant’s concept of aesthetics.
See you on [...]