Dear Sam, Mmm, the roast chestnuts you were telling me about sound very tempting - I will add them to my Christmas shopping list! Your post started me thinking about all the delicious aromas that we associate with Christmas and it's also one of the themes of a book I've been reading lately, Nigel Slater's The Christmas…
Friday food for thought Dr Samuel Johnson Critic, biographer, essayist, poet and lexicographer. 1709 - 1784
Dear Claire I'm roasting chestnuts as I write - no better tradition at this time of year, when December is almost upon us, the lights are twinkling in the windows and the snow is flurrying. I do miss the chestnut sellers on English street corners and their little blackened paper bags of steaming hot…
Hello, We are taking a Christmas and New Year break at the moment. We have lots of posts planned for 2018, so we look forward to seeing you back here at Staircase 9 17 on Friday, 26th January 2018. Claire & Sam
Dear Claire, Happy Advent! I can hardly believe we are into December. Thanks so much for all those gift ideas. What wonderful ways to do some good - and extremely handy for me, as I haven’t even begun my Christmas shopping yet! One thing I did buy, though, was a children's Advent calendar. It's from…
