The Millers Tale

A short East Anglian, rambling away. Campari, eyeliner and impure thoughts.

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All The Umbrellas In London - The Magnetic Fields

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Frangelico, chocolate and redcurrant cannolis: my latest @buryfree food column is online now. 

  http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/opinion/sweet-treats-with-a-history-of-their-own-1-8048084 …

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Nothing tastes as good as having toes feels (but having diabetes has made me hate clean eating even more) https://nicmillerstales.com/2017/06/13/why-diabetes-has-made-me-detest-clean-eating-even-more/

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Smell like the richest bitch on the beach.

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Roasted banana, malted milk and spelt cake. 

http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/news/opinion/sweet-memories-of-desert-play-days-1-7997784

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I was just a boy when I sat down To watch the news on TV I saw some ordinary slaughter I saw some routine atrocity My father said, don't look away You got to be strong, you got to be bold, now He said, that in the end it is beauty That is going to save the world, now

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I’m so fucking tired of wholesome food-writing. Here’s Jim Harrison, the fucking king, being kingly in the kitchen. Put down your goddamn mobile phone and pick up a marlboro instead.

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Some thoughts on oyster soup

“There were always oysters…and those to praise them” How odd that my introduction to oyster soup should come via novels written by mainly landlocked authors in the America of near…

I've written about oyster soup and its importance in the American literary scene.

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Mummy's Whole Fish from Summers Under the Tamarind Tree by @sumayyausmani. Beautiful spiced tomatoes and onions, simple but sumptuous. #Pakistan #Pakistanifood #fishcooking #grilled #summersundethetamarindtree #recipes #sumayyausmani #mycookbooks #foodwriting #cookbooks

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What I learned in 2015: that so many broadsheet and magazine journalists do not understand that the ‘vagina’ is not a catch all term for female genitalia. Countless articles and books where waxing is mentioned refer to vaginas when anyone with any recollection of biology will tell you that you do not wax a vagina. Feminist treatise on waxing and pubic hair are undermined when their author demonstrates such a poor grasp of physiology and it doesn’t help people learn the correct terminology which is- pussy, muff, mini and sacred yoni asides - sometimes required.

If your vagina is lined with fur then maybe you might have to wax it but as a rule, we wax our mons pubis/vulva/perineum (the latter if the hair strays a bit) and not the vagina which is the conduit between the outside world and the cervix and thence on, the uterus. 

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A Home away from home: Anna Hope’s novel ‘The Ballroom’ has links with our own Suffolk history

This feature was first published by The Bury Free Press in their print edition only and is reprinted here by kind permission: http://goo.gl/43xUkF

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A Home away from home: Anna Hope’s novel ‘The Ballroom’ has links with our own Suffolk history

This feature was first published by The Bury Free Press in their print edition only and is reprinted here by kind permission: http://goo.gl/43xUkF

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Pierced

Is it wrong to pierce a babies ears? In this piece, I write about my experience of having my ears as a small child and the impact this had. As a small child, I was moved to a Central American cou…

#piercings #babiesearrings #piercedears #mexico #memoir

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Why I’m not ashamed that I love Supertramp

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rch6k

It’s the music of school exchange trips to France, of waving goodbye to French boys who spent their summers wooing starry-eyed English girls. We chased Fabrice, Jean-Paul and Thierry without shame or reservation, wearing the candy-striped seersucker pants we bought at Monoprix. Goodbye Stranger was the theme song of those summers

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Violet Cakes and California Stars

In 2009, I fell in love with an Englishman whilst on a vintage car rally in Sicily. We got married and in 2010 I moved from Los Angeles to London. Enter Claire Ptak into my life. Perhaps not imme...

Misti Traya moved to London from Los Angeles and this post talks about how she found her roots in a little East London bakery called Violet. 

I remember my own terrible homesickness and loss of sense of place when I moved back here as a kid after living in Mexico. Homesickness really is the worst feeling. When I moved to London as a young woman, I remember looking up at the high ceiling of my Victorian groundfloor flat and feeling myself shrink to nothing underneath it. I had always lived in bijou cottages in the country where one dipped ones head to cross a threshold-and I am only five foot one! It took ages to get used to the contrast between the lack of space outside and the vastness of those ceilings inside, the total opposite to Suffolk, in fact

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When we told my father that he was to become a grandfather for the first time, he blurted out, “it’s not like a rabbit, you know. You can’t just leave it in a hutch” which, as a lesson in parenting, rankled at the time seeing as he once ate one of my childhood pet rabbits.

My latest Bury Free Press column: That time my father ate my rabbit and other bunny related events. 

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What I learned in 2015: that so many broadsheet and magazine journalists do not understand that the 'vagina' is not a catch all term for female genitalia. Countless articles and books where waxing is mentioned refer to vaginas when anyone with any recollection of biology will tell you that you do not wax a vagina. Feminist treatise on waxing and pubic hair are undermined when their author demonstrates such a poor grasp of physiology and it doesn't help people learn the correct terminology which is- pussy, muff, mini and sacred yoni asides - sometimes required.

If your vagina is lined with fur then maybe you might have to wax it but as a rule, we wax our mons pubis/vulva/perineum (the latter if the hair strays a bit) and not the vagina which is the conduit between the outside world and the cervix and thence on, the uterus.