it’s about 2h from Paddington to Cardiff, not sure about Southend
Jack Monroe #431 Close your begs, woman!
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Let us not forget the quest of the Lost Tile, where our preternaturally strong pixie extracted her forgotten bounty from the floor, or the swearing at support staff over made up incidents via Twitter and getting scolded.
She certainly has a high opinion of herselfNo idea about the other blog. I've seen reference to Twitter comments by the brother but if they existed, they've gone now. What I do have a receipt for is Jack giggling about how her brother worries about his mates "jacking off" to her picture in the paper.
From 21:58 minutes in.
8 hours and 57 minutes, so shorter than the school run or a trip to Aldi.
Freaks me out that you can be in another country in just a few hours. I could drive for three days and still be in Australia.
And god forbid he be cared for by anyone other than the woman who, by her own admission, isn’t maternal, never wanted kids, sold his toy dinosaur, kept him in a cold house with not enough food because she was too proud to ask for help… I could go on but I may have an actual aneurysm.
Also, who can't think of a non-pie pumpkin use in this day and age? Pumpkin scones, as a concept, are quite un-new. But chunks of squash in a scone sounds yerg and who has diceable pumpkin lying around--canned is fab, shelf-stable, cheaper, always in season, and finally, not disgusting in baked goods. I'd hate to see her carrot cake.Dear God her pumpkin scones are like biscuits!
Jack Monroe’s pumpkin and sultana scones recipe
This Halloween, try these pumpkin scones instead of the ubiquitous pie. They are sweet enough to eat with butter and savoury enough to pile with cheesewww.theguardian.com
If you want to use up a Jack-o-lantern (the point of Jack's article?) don't bother because aside from the seeds (toasted and salted) the rest is bred for the making of Jack-o-lanterns, not eating. So just compost the damn thing. Or smash it in the street. Either works. Food pumpkins are generally not good for carving. But they are good for stuffing, baking, mashing, etc. But back to the canned pumpkin rant--since food pumpkins are between 5-10 lbs. (average) most people don't just have a bunch of pumpkins lying around without specific plans for them.
Lastly, TIL that English Baptists have liquor cabinets but don't allow Halloween.
"Hold my baby please" is a classic too
I hate the story about her punching her brother. It's incredibly bleeping cringe and also incredibly horrible that she can boast of physically attacking someone and wear it as a badge of honour. Somehow she's allowed to get away with this. If it was the other way around, the Essex celeb squad would have her brother banged up before you could blink.
"Where I come from" is just so embarrassing. She definitely thinks all working class / poor people behave as if they're in Eastenders, and deck each other all the time whenever they have a disagreement (whenever they can tear themselves away from watching Jeremy Kyle and scoffing burgers).
Her poor family.
"Where I come from" is just so embarrassing. She definitely thinks all working class / poor people behave as if they're in Eastenders, and deck each other all the time whenever they have a disagreement (whenever they can tear themselves away from watching Jeremy Kyle and scoffing burgers).
Her poor family.
Perhaps Jack is living a life beyond her wildest dreams at the nearest Travel Tavern, courtesy of her corporate overlords.
I don’t think she’d be able to resist a selfie though. We got a fanny and feet pic last time, so I guess she’s got to get her Mediterranean arse out this time. Going to be difficult to stage an accidental belfie.
I don’t think she’d be able to resist a selfie though. We got a fanny and feet pic last time, so I guess she’s got to get her Mediterranean arse out this time. Going to be difficult to stage an accidental belfie.
A different squig from the original food killer squig. The Guardian thing is going to be an absolute shitshow.
100% mithering I bet she’d pinch you under the table at tea time
*banging fists on table and chanting* TRAIN CHAOS, TRAIN CHAOS, TRAIN CHAOS
It's completely true that she would have had very little to do with the art director for her books. She might not have even met him; the pictures of her will have been done by a photographer working for/with him.
Something else bothering me about her back story: she supposedly doesn't drive, yet she had a job working for a local paper, where being mobile at short notice is necessary. We know that she did work for the paper, yet if the non-driver thing is true, she would have been really unreliable and limited in what she could cover. Even local press junior reporting jobs are really competitive and there must have been some sort of nepotism involved. You normally need a degree and the key requirement of the job is being able to read and write accurately, stupidly quickly, which she supposedly can't do.
Is Big D a mason?
Something else bothering me about her back story: she supposedly doesn't drive, yet she had a job working for a local paper, where being mobile at short notice is necessary. We know that she did work for the paper, yet if the non-driver thing is true, she would have been really unreliable and limited in what she could cover. Even local press junior reporting jobs are really competitive and there must have been some sort of nepotism involved. You normally need a degree and the key requirement of the job is being able to read and write accurately, stupidly quickly, which she supposedly can't do.
Is Big D a mason?
Interesting. So Jack’s benefits were delayed because ‘they said I’d made myself unemployed’. Seems that the brat demands & flounce at the fire station actually happened then.
And also, moaning about people not knocking at her door during the poverty. Thought you cowered at the sound of a doorbell Jack? And also, anyone asking ‘how are you’ would soon learn their lesson eg? Uncle Albert ‘during the poverty…’ over and over-imagine how bad she’d have been whilst imagining she was in the middle of it?
Blimey - will she be a no show?
What the hell were The Guardian thinking?
she sounds less nasal in that James O’brien interview.
someone has put a picture of the house plan of the crappy bungalow on haunted bird. Wow it’s big isn’t it. The storage in the bathroom alone!
someone has put a picture of the house plan of the crappy bungalow on haunted bird. Wow it’s big isn’t it. The storage in the bathroom alone!
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When was this? She wasn't with Harold then, was she? It all blends into one after a time.
'Like slop in an ashtray, so are the days of Jack's life'
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