Monthly Archives: December 2013
Jolly Good Fun: Parlour Games of the Past
The long hours of New Year’s Eve stretch ahead of you next week … do you need some ideas for entertaining your family and friends? If so, check out my article from January’s Period Living magazine! I think that the magazine itself is just about still on sale, and I can tell you, having a copy
Continue ReadingBook review: ‘Tudor: The Family Story’ by Leanda de Lisle.
As soon as this book came out I knew I wanted to read it – and I was glad to have the chance to write a review of it for Country Life magazine… ‘First, I should declare an interest. I like Henry VIII. I’m one of the curators at Hampton Court Palace, and whenever he’s
Continue ReadingA Victorian alternative to Xmas pudding (includes jelly and ice cream)
The 18th December is coming up, the dreaded day of my fortieth birthday! What am I doing to celebrate? Well, on Wednesday evening at 8pm I shall be helping my chum Annie Gray to make Nesselrode Pudding on the Food and Drink Christmas Special on BBC2. Nesselrode is a very Christmassy creamy jelly with chestnuts, ideally brandy, and
Continue ReadingIn which (to my surprise) I learn how to ski.
I have been away for a couple of weeks in the Rocky Mountains, learning how to ski. Why one earth would I want to do that, you may well ask, given my well-documented fear of heights, of being cold and of going too fast? Well, I did like
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