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Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife »
Tackling Christmas recipes with ease (well, almost)
Posted on 12:28pm Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Friends, family and regular readers of this blog will know I am not the best cook in the world. In fact I am pretty rubbish. I don’t have the time or money to take myself off to Tuscany for a weeks’ long cookery course and I constantly fail when left to my own devices so decided last week to invest and indulge in some self-improvement.
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Take what you need, all the rest is greed
Posted on 12:12pm Thursday 11th November 2010
Jo Chipchase asks whether the UK's "eat as much as you like" dining experiences and 'cheap-as-chips' clothes are fuelling the tendency towards greed and wastage.
Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife »
Happy Halloween from the Housewife
Posted on 7:26pm Thursday 28th October 2010
I love this time of year. Especially the week of Halloween and Bonfire Night. The air smells fizzy crisp, woody and burnt. Sunsets are golden orange and the early darkening reveals little twinkling lights, candles and the odd carved pumpkin face in the window. It’s a special season full of suppressed excitement and the possibility of a stunt or a scare in the air. Husband and I married during this week.
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Computer says no again and again
Posted on 12:12pm Thursday 21st October 2010
We are increasingly reliant on computer systems to run absolutely everything in our lives. After experiencing an annoying late night incident at Travelodge, Jo Chipchase gets hot under the collar about those badly timed moments when the computer simply says "no".
Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife »
Smoking As An Artform, Discuss...
Posted on 6:18pm Friday 15th October 2010
Let me say straight away that I do not endorse smoking in any shape or form, I don’t want to glamorise it, I don’t want to encourage anyone to take it up, continue doing it or not think about quitting. I myself gave up smoking over 5 years ago and am very proud of myself for doing so, I have absolutely no plans to start again and I know that it has no redeeming features whatsoever and am pleased to enjoy a longer, hopefully healthier life without it. So having said that, let me tell about this little exhibition that caught my eye…
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Why it’s time to stop ‘nannying’ women
Posted on 11:05am Wednesday 29th September 2010
Jo Chipchase gets hot under the bodice re recent advice dished out to women of 'childbearing age' and suggests that the men in white coats stop laying 'guilt trips' on gals who really are doing everything for themselves these days.
Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife »
Smartphone Killed The Pub-Quiz
Posted on 7:15pm Monday 27th September 2010
Ok not as catchy as Video Killed The Radio Star and maybe not as true but it can’t be denied that the fact we have easy access to every answer in our bags and pockets is impacting on our traditional quiz!
Quentin Delahunty – Liberal. Creative. Brightonian »
A Whiter Shade Of FAIL
Posted on 10:27pm Monday 13th September 2010
On a recent autumnal stroll around the Pavilion Gardens, amidst the soundscape of cooing pigeons, squawking gulls and chattering tourists, my highly trained musical ear picked out a magical sound. Instantly, I was drawn to a secluded patch of pavement where I found the origin of this spiritual music - a Zimbabwean man playing his nation’s national instrument, a mbira. I consider myself quite proficient on a djembe drum (then again, in Brighton, who isn’t?), however, the beautiful ethnic notes caressed by this musical maestro (his name was Harlington) had a moving effect on all within earshot. Alfresco creatives powered down their iPads to listen, lounging students silenced their own ironic chat, sinewy tai-chi aficionados snapped back to reality and even the squirrels stopped chomping on their nuts, with all and sundry wrapped in a revitalising blanket of Afro-vibes.
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Do we Brits prefer animals to children?
Posted on 11:46am Tuesday 7th September 2010
Jo Chipchase explores her sneaking suspicion that British people are kinder towards cats, canines and squirrels than small children...
Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife »
Hove's Tropical Underbelly
Posted on 8:20pm Sunday 22nd August 2010
Having been intrigued for over a year now with Hove’s hidden resort spot The Bali Brasserie and it’s attached Tropical Bar I felt a visit was well overdue. I know its not so unusual to have a restaurant serving Malaysian food, but rather the thought of a Tropical Bar intrigued me. I had visions of an exotic bolthole hidden away from prying eyes full of a glamorous clientele who had just stepped off a recently moored yacht. I wasn’t far wrong…
Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife »
Time To Put Away Childish Things?
Posted on 7:22pm Tuesday 10th August 2010
I turn 38 this week and find that I am still struggling with this whole ‘grown up’ thing. Despite having a marriage, a child and a mortgage I still feel young and all associated words attributed to that state: foolish, floundering, fanatical, finding my way. But on the other hand I am still ensnared by the trappings of adulthood.
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Are bigotry and intolerance on the rise in Britain?
Posted on 10:30am Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Yesterday's news footage depicting African mothers and children being roughly evicted from a Paris housing estate by French gendarmes has drawn some disturbingly right-wing comments from British newspaper readers. Jo Chipchase poses the question "are bigotry and intolerance are on the rise in Britain".
Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife »
Crumbs In The Bed
Posted on 4:48pm Monday 26th July 2010
You know that feeling when you wake up in a hotel and just as you’re about to consider getting up to go down for breakfast you smugly remember filling in your menu card before you fell asleep? Then suddenly its ‘Knock Knock, Room Service’ and ta-dah breakfast is served whilst you’re still coming to. It’s a lovely feeling and I think breakfast in bed is still one of the most wonderful things that can happen to you...
Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife »
TOP TEN: Here Comes Trouble, and other t-shirts
Posted on 7:59pm Monday 12th July 2010
It’s a nightmare. A sartorial minefield. What do you dress your child in every day to show off just how funny and imaginative you are as a parent?
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