Hardly a Christmas passes when I don’t think about the strange tradition of the Victorian workhouse Christmas, where the smug and wealthy provided the poor with a magnificent Christmas dinner and then for the next 364 days, starved and punished them for being poor.
People constantly say to me “how are you still single!?” - I think they mean well & that’s cool. But being single shouldn’t be seen as negative! I became single by choice. Let’s stop making women feel like they’re failing if they aren’t in a relationship!
I spent last night in the Great Kitchen at Hampton Court making marchpane chess pieces with the magnificent @HRP_palaces Tudor cooks & @DrAnnieGray. Guess which piece was mine?