I went to a wedding! One of my very favourite people got married yesterday at a beautiful ceremony at the Mining Institute in Newcastle. I love small, personal weddings as my family is HUGE. Every time a cousin gets married, all 600 of us firsts, seconds, and several-times-removed-barely-related relatives have to make the rounds and try to remember each others …
Highlights from LDF 2016
I have been coming to London Design Festival for as long as I can remember, longer than I’ve even had a job in design. I’d write endless lists of events I wanted to go to and exhibitions I wanted to visit. I had to see everything. These days I don’t really get to do the small shows as my boss …
How to stay Cruelty-Free at a Photo Shoot
Last week I took part in Operation BoPo, an awesome community project to promote body positivity. Models of every shape and size were photographed for an art show celebrating the fact that all bodies are good bodies. We dressed how we liked, in the clothes that made us feel beautiful. We had our hair and makeup done by professionals. We …
#ZeroWasteWeek: Weekends and the Shopaholic’s Guide to Ethical Fashion
Ah Monday. We meet again. I had such a fabulous weekend catching up with friends, dancing lots, and drinking delightful cocktails that tasted like apple pie. I went to Stockbridge Market and bought raspberries for fruit gin. I listened to 90s music. I wore sequins. I snuggled with my dog, we ate comfort food, and we watched a lot of …
#ZeroWasteWeek Day 4: Find the vegetables you lost and a recipe for Gnocchi with Butternut Squash and Rosemary
Sometimes it’s necessary to do a fridge minesweep. Rogue lone vegetables and packets of perishables hide behind cartons of soy milk, and can be thrown together to make a fairly impressive meal. That’s exactly what I did last night. I found a random butternut squash that neither me nor my flatmate could remember buying. I spied some gnocchi I’d brought …
#ZeroWasteWeek Day 3: The Importance of Messing Up and a Recipe for Fridge-raiding Spaghetti
There comes a day, usually midweek, when you question if it would be better to go out and buy more fresh produce for your dinner or eat some of the random stuff in your freezer. I contemplated this as I realised I would run out of mushrooms before I ran out of meals on my Meal Planner that called for …
#ZeroWasteWeek Day 2: Laundry bags aren’t just for your delicates and a Recipe for Broccoli & Pinenut Pasta Bake
I’m terrible for being caught unprepared when grocery shopping, but I managed to set out with empty tubs for dry ingredients and some trusty old net laundry bags for my fruit and veg. I’m pretty sure there are products out there specifically designed for this, but that would involve a trip into town. Who has time for that?? I even …
Kitten Kollege: A Guide to Neutering your Floof
I have a confession to make. I am *coughcough* a prolific sharer of kitten pics. Videos, memes, candid snaps of photogenic felines. I am partial to a bit of floof. My own long-suffering cat MaoMao has been papped more often than the Kardashians, and now the poor thing adopts a sullen eye-roll every time I point my iPhone in her …
#ZeroWasteWeek Day 1: Grocery Shopping and a Recipe for Miso Noodles with Cavalo Nero
My new flatmate and I have only been living together for a week, so we haven’t yet coordinated things like grocery shopping. This is probably why we somehow ended up with two loaves of bread last week, and by Monday my seeded loaf had gone a bit…hard. I didn’t have time to do much with it in the morning so …
London’s Chinatown: P2BUS and the many cakes I didn’t eat
I had a few spare hours to myself in London last week, so I decided to check out Chinatown. I’ve never had a proper wander there before despite how close it is to the West End and Soho, which is really a bit ridiculous isn’t it? Edinburgh doesn’t have a Chinatown, though we do have a handful of Asian supermarkets and …