Blog 108. Paddington Bear Eat Your Heart Out

Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and caldron bubble.  It is January, and so marmalade-making time in the Shacklepin household, and the cauldron – or rather the large jam-making pan – has, indeed, been bubbling away for over two hours.  Steam fills the kitchen and the extractor fan is roaring away at full speed.Continue reading “Blog 108. Paddington Bear Eat Your Heart Out”

Blog 74. Keep Taking the Tablets

Well, if you are reading this, then congratulations: you have survived Covid 19, a particularly unpleasant virus that has dominated the year 2020 and made it a thoroughly miserable one. The virus may still be with us, but I hope that – by this time next year – we will at last be free toContinue reading “Blog 74. Keep Taking the Tablets”