Roo broth – I know, right? What is it, some kind of medieval kangaroo soup? Well, no. Roo broth is more of a bruet – a kind of thickly sauced meat dish – a bit
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Medieval Cookery: Frumenty
So, for a while I’ve been promising myself I’d have a go at making frumenty. For a start, it’s easy, and also, it’s ubiquitous. It was a very common thing to serve in medieval times.
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The Black Squirrels of Girton
On Saturday I went out on my first ever solo geocaching expedition. Someone recently showed me how it was done, and I was quite enchanted with the whole idea of it. There’s a marriage of
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Review: The Colour Black by Maia Walczak
This last week, now my own book has gone off, I need to catch up with those other diversions I’ve been forced to postpone. At the moment I’m reading six books and watching three movies and
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My first review – Mind Seed
So, rather wonderfully, I’ve been mentioned in a review for “Sex and the Single Hive Mind”. This is the SF/horror story published in the Mind Seed anthology, over at SF Crowsnest. For my part it’s
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That First Draft Feeling…
The first draft of the new Dear Amy went off to my agent yesterday. I am having a little breather to try and catch up with books, computer games, and TV box sets. Believe it or not,
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Review: Medea
So, a friend of mine mentioned that she was off to see Medea at the cinema, in a live broadcast from its last night at the NT. This reminded me I’d not seen it despite having really
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Medieval Cookery: Pies de Parys
So, since it’s Sunday and I’ve been working very hard on the book, I fancied something indulgent, and settled on Pies de Parys, a meat pie from Pleyn Delit. This pie, from Harleian MS 4016 (dating from around
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Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1)
On a world colonised by humans, Todd has been raised in a town inhabited solely by men. In Prentisstown, everyone is cursed with a kind of a telepathy called Noise. This renders their thoughts and
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Adventures in Dystopia: the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment on Orford Ness
So, this weekend I did something a little different. I’ve been thinking ahead to my future projects. I wondered which crime project will follow Bethan Avery, the first draft of which is nearly complete. With this
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