Before I emigrate, me and my Mum came up with a bucket list of all the things we wanted to do together before I left. There was a mixture of things we’d done before, enjoy doing and just wanted to do again and some things that were completely new to us. 1,339 more words
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The Women Men Don't See, Indeed.
While enjoying GD Deckard’s latest installment of Bob vs the Aliens, I was moved to ask him if he was a Tiptree fan. Just something about the rhythm of his dialogue, and the subject matter, struck a resonant chord. 932 more words
Giving up on a book
I’ve walked out of a couple of films in my life, but I’ve almost never given up on a book. Especially a book I’ve bought. Especially especially a book I’ve bought in 389 more words
The Women You Didn't See: A Letter to Alice Sheldon
“The Women You Didn’t See” first appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2015, and Letters to Tiptree, ed Alexandra Pierce and Alisa Krasnostein, August 2015. 2,275 more words
In Season: Rhubarb
Rhubarb is botanically a vegetable but in the kitchen it’s treated as fruit. The long, pink sticks are tart, some deliver a sharp sherbert-tang, but add a little sugar, ginger and strawberries turn into a dish of wonderful. 626 more words
Times They Are A Changing
These little guys used to make me smile when I was away from home. They were a reminder of home as I lived only a few miles from… 114 more words
Afternoon Tea at Tiptree, Essex - the home of jam
Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday and jam everyday at Tiptree – to misquote Lewis Carroll!
On the second tier we relished homemade warm fruit scones dusted with icing sugar, with… 633 more words
