A Bumper Edition
A bumper edition, more pages of everything we love about My Weekly, what’s not to love? I always go straight to the recipes as I am constantly in search of dish inspiration. Some I follow to the letter, others, after gazing into the fridge have triggered my ‘Ready Steady Cook’ button. I like to think I’m the queen of making something out of seemingly nothing and get a tiny internal kick out of the challenge.
Another reason I scoot to the recipes is, although I love cooking and consider myself a reasonably good domestic practitioner, (with the exception of a traditional Sunday Lunch), I place a time restriction on effort and reward which it seems My Weekly have tapped into.
Note to self re Sunday lunch - The purchasing, preparation, cooking, table setting, execution and clearing up is totally and utterly disproportionate to the time it takes for the table to wolf it down and ask “What’s for pudding?” But it’s a sacred meal, you only do it once a month so suck it up, delegate a little more and stop sounding like a Mary Martyr because actually you enjoy the praise when it all goes well, especially the gravy which if there was an award, you’d slam dunk win –(Secret ingredients: a dash of Port together with my butcher’s bag of bones).
So glad we are talking skirts, I know dresses are the in thing and everyone is floating around in them with a pair of ‘Box Fresh’ trainers, as they say on Instagram, including myself occasionally, but at heart I’m a separates person. They suit my figure and give me more styling options. If I think of my go-to summer wardrobe it heavily features skirts: maxi (I was that 70’s teen) or finishing somewhere mid-calf (my knees are not what they were) colourful ones, plain ones worn with T’s blouses and embellished with belts wraps, necklaces and bracelets.
You know I’m a fan of the Greek Islands and travel out here as often as I can. It was the place when Covid hit Mark and I ran to in the Summer of 2020 armed with forms and test kits.
Crete, I have visited, with skirts, many times always hiring a car as being one of the larger islands it needs exploration.
From the old town in Chania featuring elegant Venetian Mansions to the Palace of Knossos. Put this on your list because after a visit you’ll feel a greater affinity with Crete’s exciting history. Revealed to the world in 1900 British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans spent 35 years and £250,000 of his own money showing us how this highly sophisticated society ran its council and everyday life. Parts have been reconstructed to look like it was which truly helps our imagination go back to a time where the Cretans and the Egyptians were enjoying sanitation and an orderly way of life and we on the other hand were scrambling around in the mud wearing pongy woollen underwear, long skirts and cloaks – No ‘box fresh’ trainers there!
Love,
Anthea X