Category: lifestyle

  • A humble pudding creates a ruckus

    Now that we’ve been on the subject of British food at Christmas, who’d have guessed that a little bit of crusty, puffy goodness would become the nucleus of a holiday controversy? I can’t remember when I became interested in Yorkshire pudding; probably from an old boyfriend’s British mother decades ago,…

  • Fall adventure: road trips

    Crisp fresh air, the colours and scents of autumn, funky small towns and eateries you wouldn’t discover any other way – it’s hard to beat a fall road trip for an all-encompassing travel adventure.   Post-pandemic, there’s not much planning required for a road trip – decide the general area,…

  • Are you ‘Dark Academia’, Neo-Victorian, or even Cottagecore at heart?

    These days there’s a label for everything. Our society seems unable to function unless it’s categorized a trend and given it a designation. I suspect there are people quietly living their own way without knowing that their lifestyle falls under a certain ‘aesthetic’. The poor fools 😉   What’s most…