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othing better for a lazy freezing weekend day off the easiest version of a mulled wine i ve found is ambrose heath s vin chaud good drinks was published in 1939 and this version is by far the simplest i can find which is a big part of its appeal current recipes feel over complicated and don t have the differentiation from other versions of mulled wine to make it stand out ambrose heath only asks that you sweeten a bottle of claret of burgandy any cheap but not awful red wine will work to your taste and heat it in a pan with a stick of cinnamon as soon as it approches boiling remove from the heat extract the cinnamon and serve in mugs or glasses in the bottom of which there is already a slice of lemon simple quick not too strong perfect posted by desperate reader at 4 17 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday january 8 2026 new year new ways to procrastinate after a very busy peak period at work i managed to get the first week of january off worked on the 2nd but missed the last weekend of the school holidays somewhere at the back of my head was a plan to really start writing here but instead i started a jigsaw puzzle so fiendish that i gave up on it after 3 days and took it to a charity shop and then having learnt nothing started another more enjoyable one it still isn t finished either i did at least finish the jumper i started in autumn 2024 on new year s day in time for the very cold snap but otherwise it s been some light reading lighter film watching cooking and generally not going out very much we had thought about going away but the weather being what it has i m glad we didn t the chance for a few really lazy unproductive days has been delightful especially as my job role changes the day i go back which is exciting but lots of new challanges too meanwhile i ve been working through diana henry s around the table predictably excellent 52 essays about her life and food there are no recipes as such but a lot of tips and pointers that are promising husband has fallen somewhat in love with diana henry s cookbooks particularly oven to table and bird in the hand he s more or less taken over daily cooking and appreciates these ones because it s food we both like and more importantly the recipes turn out as promised his efforts look like the pictures and it s given him a real boost in confidence when it comes to trying new things the only new recipe and it s barely a recipe that i ve tried is from skye mcalpine s wonderful christmas companion this is currently half price in various places waterstones and amazon for sure i bought it for vibes and have no regrets it s a gorgeous book that mixes completely over the top with really practical under the really practical heading is panettone pudding as a twist on bread and butter pudding we ended up with a serious excess of panettone this year after i bought one early and forgot about it bought another and then yet another the m s chocolate and cherry version being impossible to resist chopping up half of one of them and covering it with custard is about as simple as it gets though i see no reason not to use pre made custard if it s there so it could be even simpler this is absolutely worth buying an extra or indeed a sale panettone for it was incredibly comforting to eat on a night when the temperature outside hit 5 and we were struggling to keep warm posted by desperate reader at 6 43 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday december 20 2025 the odd flamingo nina bawden a real change of mood for my second reprint of the year nomination nina bawden s the odd flamingo lands us in the sultry heat of august and gives us a much seedier overview of the 1950s only two years separate this one from death in ambush but there s little room for nostalgia or the cosy certainties of village life the heat of one particular day has been broken by a thunderstorm solicitor will hunt is regarding his roses when the phone disturbs his tranquility on the other end is celia wife of his best friend and something is very wrong humphrey stone is the charismatic headmaster of the local boys school and here in their home which comes with the job is a girl claiming that he s got her pregnant and tried to push her into an illegal abortion the stakes are high if she s telling the truth the stones lose reputation his job their home and their place in local society humphrey is away celia wants will to interview the girl and judge if she s telling the truth will thinks she is and from there his carefully ordered life is pushed into nightmare territory he tracks humphrey down to a sordid little soho club the odd flamingo they used to go to in their youth when it felt edgy will has long outgrown it humphrey seems not to have grown up at all in the wake of rose s claims somewhat denied by humphrey there will be blackmail murder brushes with drug pushers criminal gangs and more as will steadily more disillusioned at each turn and watched over by a pitying policeman tries to help his friend and find somene left with some innocence the grittiness is an excellent counterpoint to the now more familiar and altogether more sanitised view of the 1950s that we get from agatha christie or indeed susan gilruth and others the british library crime classics series have been brilliant at unearthing lost gems that do this contemporary readers would have been well enough aware of this side of society but i think we mostly imagine a safer time when we look back bawden instead gives us a brilliantly drawn portrait of extremely banal evil and she does it by letting us see will struggle with each betrayal it s elegant writing that does not dwell on sordid details but gives us time to think through the implications of each revelation i could almost feel the humidity and grubbiness drifting up from the hot london streets and strongly identified with will who really doesn t want to be involved in any of it but at the same time can t see how to avoid the obligation as a final note a gay character is described in somewhat homophobic terms i don t think this particularly reflects bawden s views but rather describes a character who is meant to be morally ambiguous on several levels and displays the imperfect side of will s character that said you probably wouldn t get away with it now posted by desperate reader at 7 01 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday december 13 2025 death in ambush susan gilruth my first nomination for crime reprint of the year is this year s british library crime classics christmas special i loved this in my opinion it s one of the best christmas mysteries i ve found there s a quote from francis iles on the back that could feel like faint praise susan gilruth has a pleasant light touch but actually is the perfect descriptor published in 1952 and set presumably around the same time the korean war is mentioned this is a very satisfying slice of nostalgia liane lee craford is married to a soldier bill who features not at all for the rest of the book she has been invited to stay with friends for christmas in a quaint english village and sets off sometime surprisingly early in december about the 10th maybe tolerant friends bill has to stay behind for some sort of training down in staple green the local doctor who will be hosting lee can afford to keep his wife two children a cook and a nanny in some comfort i wonder what contemporary gp s would make of this lee arrives in time for a very awkward drinks party with the local gentry where we meet a full cast of characters from horrible husband and retired judge sir henry metcalfe to mysterious russian widow sonia phillips sir henry is not long for this world and we ll soon find more or less everyone feels the world would be better off without him and quite a few of them have a reasonable motive for doing something about it it is always satisfying when the victim is a thoroughly unpleasant character in a murder mystery and by a pleasing coincidence sir henry is disposed of on the 13th of december today at first it looks like a stroke but soon doctor howard has some suspicions and scotland yard is called in when scotland yard arrives it s in the form of detective inspector hugh gordon and lee already knows him lee is a light hearted sort of main character and gilruth a pen name for susannah margaret hornsby wright makes her amusing this is presumably the light touch that francis iles praised because she s never too jolly and it never jars which feels like a neat trick to pull off in what was only a second novel it s this tone that goes a long way to making it such a fun christmas read nothing too heavy to darken the festive mood the other thing that feels unusual and is handled well is the ambiguous relationship between lee and hugh they re flirtatious and there are hints that hugh might have made romantic declarations in the past lee s friends seem to accept hugh as a sort of boyfriend but at the same time it s all very wholesome the exact nature of their relationship is as big a mystery as whodunnit beyond that it s a well put together mystery with the right amount of clues i did not work it out but with hindsight the breadcrumbs were laid lots of atmosphere a sense of peril for characters you like some good red herrings snow decorations and all the other trimmings of a good old fashioned christmas susan gilruth genuinely feels like a lost gem she s perfect for christie fans specifically classic crime fans generally and anyone who loves a christmas crime the british library team are indicating they might reprint more which i m excited about i really want more lee and hugh but even more than that i see this book as that rare thing a regular crime re read that could easily become part of my own christmas traditions vote for it posted by desperate reader at 4 46 pm 2 comments email this 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