As the author of the weekly Guardian column ‘How to make the perfect…’ Felicity Cloake, at a mere 36 years old, is fast reaching national treasure status. Fair-skinned with laughing eyes, originally from Hertfordshire, she lives in North London on the Caledonian Rd. With the publication of her latest book ‘One more croissant for the…
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Drinking with Oz Clarke
This was supposed to be an interview. I’d done my research and listed my questions. But three bottles of wine later, Oz and I were talking about life, wine, politics, farming, situational drinking, hopes and regrets. The interview had taken all day, a Monday, during actual daytime, and any structure had broken down into a…
Ahoy there! Wine, women and war
Sweethearts and wives (may they never meet). Naval Toast for Saturday Patrick O’Brian is dead now. He wrote the book of the film ‘Master and Commander’ which was the first of a series of 20 volumes about Captain Jack Aubrey and his ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin. O’Brian spent the last 50 years of his life…