@karmawall.bsky.social You mentioned a pie from the butcher on one of Alanna’s threads - which butcher? 🧐

Any #foodsky recommendations for the Ambleside area ? We’re booked in at Henrock at our hotel the first night , Mathildes is firmly on my breakfast/lunch hit list .

Leftover mash & spinach from last night reheated & crisped up , big scoop of kimchi , fried egg. The best start to Monday 😁

Happy to report that I’ve turned a corner! I’ve had real food and lived to tell the tale. Especially enjoyed roasted chicken thighs, jacket potatoes and stir-fry for dinner 🥰

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I lost my appetite mid-week along with some kind of stomach bug and I’m still not hungry! I am tolerating meal replacement drinks so I’m not withering away but I am so fed up with it, especially after losing my sense of taste just last week!

@kavey.bsky.social do you have a Cardiff restaurant recommendation please? Going to a Saturday matinee at the Sherman theatre in April and I’m planning ahead. Somewhere for an early dinner before we get the train home. Ben doesn’t eat fish or seafood 😩

@hassinator.bsky.social You recommended a set lunch in London a while back. It was great value? And might’ve been M-F only?

And I've contributed to this Observer guide on where to eat noodles in Britain. observer.co.uk/style/food/a...

Review of the Fortnum’s smoky Earl Grey tea, day 2 of having taste back: It still just tastes smoky to me, I can’t detect any Earl Grey at all. I like it but I’ll be going back to the Teapigs Strong Earl Grey after this.

So I might not feel 100% yet but my taste has returned! Yay! I’m going to celebrate by making a cup of the F&M smoky Earl Grey that was recommended on here and arrived yesterday 🥰

Second Covid test was negative so that confirms I just have a vicious cold. Losing my sense of taste again is the pits 😥

I decided to make small prints of a few different lino prints, and in colours I don’t usually do in those prints. I quite like green chicken the best. What do you think? 🐓

Crap. I’ve lost my sense of taste. This has only ever happened when I’ve got Covid so I’ll be testing tomorrow and hoping I don’t have it.

My Easter collection is now available on my shop! 🐰 All the eggs, bunnies, and mini eggs are ready to go. They’re delicious and just waiting for someone to eat them… I also have a few plant-based options this year! Feel free to order now or reshare if you know someone who’d love them! Thanks!

Queens Park (Swindon) bringing the joy today 🤩

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Downstairs loo redecoration project has moved on slowly. Got the (loud) paper about a month ago and finally got some paint samples to see what works.

Watching @neilkbrand.bsky.social’s show “Celebrating 100 years of Laurel & Hardy”, having loved his BBC shows about musicals. It’s just as good as I hoped, in fact better! He’s on tour, it’s a big recommend even if you aren’t a L&H fan.

- Bread and dripping compulsory for school dinners. - Seatbelts and bicycle helmets outlawed. - Othello can only be played by Laurence Fox. - Leaded petrol to go back on sale at 50p/litre cheaper than unleaded. - Leaded petrol prices to be displayed in shillings and pence per imperial gallon.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Best thing about my boots that they make a satisfying thwack thwack thwack sound! Also happy Saturday Stick Day to those who celebrate.

ICYMI. Interviewed by one of my favourite journalists who always allows me to have a rant 😂 @riverford.bsky.social wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/wl-...

I still have a few spaces on my 28 Feb botanical illustration & mental health w'shop I teach you 🌿how to break plants down to simple shapes & add shading 🧠how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health Earlybird price expires 14 Feb workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

Tea Tree and Mineral Mud Soap, with goat milk! I still have to put label wraps on this one, but! It's cured and in the shop! veronicafoaleessentials.com.au/shop/product...

@katebevan.com inquiring minds need to know if: Your laptop is sorted Daphne has forgiven you for being abandoned

I can’t quite explain why I love @parkinkatt.bsky.social’s posts as much as I do, but I do!

Women have always known that this is how the world works. Ultimately, we are not worthy of consideration. And men wonder why so many of us have a deep seated resentment.

I'm back in my @suffolksound.bsky.social radio slot at noon tomorrow talking about the new cookbooks being published over the next few months, my own collection and how I decide what makes the cut.

Any support gratefully received. gofund.me/f41394e59

Just the best night. 18 of the 22 of us that trekked the Great Wall of China. I’ve never loved so many humans equally x

@georgialewis.bsky.social Hello! Suddenly found you today, thanks to @katebevan.com 🥰

@nicmiller.bsky.social Could you give food recommendations for NO to someone that’s not been and has three-ish days there? Please?

I can’t comment on US politics as I have family there and have booked a trip over in March. I’m not even liking posts I agree with.

Had a few tired mushrooms so sliced them, sautéed, added cream and Stilton and put them on toast. It’s delicious! So easy but feels like a huge treat.

Lino Print of the Week 🐟 And just like that, it’s the start of a new week. Best tackled in company.

Word has spread on the long tailed tit grapevine that I run a very good bird café. This family group (likely brothers & sisters from a 2025 brood) came to dine. I’m passing on these 5 adorable tiny birbs (colloquial name: flying teaspoons) to you bc we all need a bit of joy rn🪶:

This makes no sense… An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto… No thanks If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote Sign the petition & help make that law. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

In case you suffer from seasonal low mood or have been anxious or sad today, here are the earliest spring flowers-these will be blooming in a few weeks’ time 🌿

Tarragon enjoying the winter sun (indoors!) #catsky

Gorgeous.

As Ben is out for the day, I’ve ordered sushi for lunch (he doesn’t eat fish 😢) and am anxiously awaiting its arrival…

“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.” - Ransom Riggs Go out and live your extraordinary life. Wishing each of you happiness, health, adventure, and wonder for 2026. And always be kind 🥂💜

Why yes, that *is* homemade butter adorning the homemade pancakes 🥰

I made butter! And I used double cream that would have gone to waste so it was basically free! 1lb salted butter and the buttermilk I need for pancakes 🥰

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There are now just 6 spaces left on my botanical illustration & mental health zoom workshop,10 Jan. I teach you: 🌿how to draw plants 🧠how creative activity improves mental health I trained as a molecular cell biologist & am also a professional illustrator: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

Due to laziness (couldn’t be bothered to go to the shops) and thanks to the internet providing recipes for “gnocchi & sausages” we had this for dinner last night (our very kind neighbours bought the spinach on the way back from the pub!). www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/main...