Emotional ties with Made in Chelsea’s Georgia Toffolo on her Marmite soldier obsession and Paddington Bear By Charlotte Pearson Methven Published: 00:02 GMT, 31 March 2019 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 31 March 2019 The presenter and reality TV star on her Marmite soldier obsession and Paddington Bear impression Georgia Toffolo I adore hairbands – I … Read more
LIFESTYLE: Larder Lust By Charlotte Page Published: 00:02 GMT, 31 March 2019 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 31 March 2019 Jars and labels at the ready… Here’s how to get your food storage space looking as organised as this. Satisfaction – and order – guaranteed Easy access: Every inch of space has been utilised; food is … Read more
HOROSCOPES: Don’t beat about the bush, Aries By Sally Brompton for The Mail on Sunday Published: 00:02 GMT, 31 March 2019 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 31 March 2019 Aries 21 March-20 April Don’t beat about the bush this week. As your assertive ruler Mars moves to focus on communications, you must not be too concerned with … Read more
This time last year I was a mess. The book I’d just finished had felt more like a nervous breakdown than a work of art, and I’d delivered it nearly a year late. My immune system had all but collapsed and I wasn’t sleeping. Everything felt impossible, from the responsibility of raising my two children … Read more
All-in-one Victoria sponge By Annie Bell Published: 00:02 GMT, 31 March 2019 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 31 March 2019 BASIC RECIPE All-in-one Victoria sponge All-in-one Victoria sponge MAKES 1 X 20CM CAKE 225g unsalted butter, softened and diced, plus extra for the tin 225g golden caster sugar 4 medium eggs 225g self-raising flour 1 tsp baking … Read more
Iced lemon polenta traybake By Annie Bell Published: 00:01 GMT, 31 March 2019 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 31 March 2019 BASIC RECIPE Iced lemon polenta traybake POLENTA CAKE MAKES 1 TRAY FOR SLICING 180g unsalted butter, softened and diced, plus extra for the tin 200g golden caster sugar 3 large eggs finely grated zest and … Read more
Super-simple chocolate cakes By Annie Bell Published: 00:01 GMT, 31 March 2019 | Updated: 00:01 GMT, 31 March 2019 BASIC RECIPE Super-simple chocolate loaf cake Super-simple chocolate loaf cake MAKES 1 X 22CM LOAF CAKE 200g unsalted butter, softened and diced, plus extra for the tin 200g golden caster sugar 3 medium eggs 100g ground … Read more
Talking to Chocolat author Joanne Harris is like dipping into a box of soft centres that has lost the little guide that usually comes tucked into the lid: you don’t know what delightful surprise you are going to get next. First she tells me that, aged 54, she’s thinking of getting her first tattoo, an … Read more
THURSDAY, MARCH 21 To Fortnum & Mason for a gloriously entertaining lunch hosted by the store’s ebullient CEO, Ewan Venters. Every few weeks, Ewan invites two dozen people from all walks of public life to come and dine in the stunning boardroom where Churchill used to have his birthday parties. ‘I haven’t had sex for … Read more
Ben Elton says, with relief in his voice: ‘It’s nice to get some good bloody reviews again, at last!’ He’s really not joking. The co-creator of the brilliant Blackadder and The Young Ones was once the king of alternative comedy, and he’s back in favour with a blistering new book called Identity Crisis and a … Read more
WHAT BOOK would children’s author and illustrator Nick Butterworth take to a desert island? Nick Butterworth is currently re-reading George Orwell’s Coming Up For Air He would take Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings to a desert island He revealed The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence left him cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:10 GMT, … Read more
CLASSIC CRIME By Barry Turner for the Daily Mail Published: 22:12 GMT, 28 March 2019 | Updated: 22:12 GMT, 28 March 2019 DEATH HAS DEEP ROOTS by Michael Gilbert (British Library £8.99, 288 pp) DEATH HAS DEEP ROOTS by Michael Gilbert (British Library £8.99, 288 pp) The late Michael Gilbert knew his stuff. A practising … Read more
POPULAR By Wendy Holden for the Daily Mail Published: 22:11 GMT, 28 March 2019 | Updated: 22:11 GMT, 28 March 2019 REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL by Nina Stibbe (Viking £12.99, 288 pp) by Nina Stibbe (Viking £12.99, 288 pp) Misfit lit is the new big thing. Following Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant, … Read more