enemy of art - writing, creating & parenting
Perhaps it’s having two older brothers, perhaps it’s simply because she gets less time alone with me ‘n’ Mr Enemy (cue maternal guilt), but Littlest is not very verbal . So I was delighted to be asked to review a ‘Chatting with Children’ pack from I CAN, the children’s communication charity. The pack consists of [...]
A while back, I published my most popular post ever – it was called Introducing… Scone Watch and it was basically a cunning plan which involved visiting nice cafes, eating scones and writing about them. I haven’t done nearly as much scone eating since then as I had hoped but –breaking news – I have [...]
That’s what I was asking my sister the other night. The day before she had given me a plastic tub and a couple of typewritten pages of paper. ‘It’s Herman,’ she said. ‘Herman the Friendship Cake.’ I was confused. More so when we got home and I peeped inside the tub. Not a cake at [...]
This is a new occasional column devoted to the humble scone, and most importantly, where to find the really good ones. It is extremely disappointing to find the sort of teashop or café that looks as if it would do a fantastic scone, only to be served a day-old scone, or even worse, a shop-bought [...]
I know, I’m a bit behind the times and all the hype about Adam Mansbach’s book Go the F**k to Sleep has been and gone, but did you know you can download a free audio version, read by Samuel L Jackson? The truth of parenting (at least of young children) is that you can only [...]
