This is an awful article.Yeah, nah, that’s offensive. Got some facts wrong, too.
This is an awful article.Yeah, nah, that’s offensive. Got some facts wrong, too.
Jack’s rosemary roast potatoes contravene the Trade Descriptions Act.
Are you privvy to the full week sales tenderstem?The sales figures for this terrible book are an absolute catastrophe.
It’s also hugely embarrassing, especially when you consider the pages of grandiose acknowledgments, as if she was receiving an Oscar or something, and all the A list name-dropping. (Gary Lineker FFS). Plus the comment about hoping the book would get her that “forever home”. And the high-profile endorsements from Nigella and Jay, who will now be forever associated with this sub-standard piece of crap.
I’d be astonished if any publisher ever takes a risk on her again.
The decorator I used said she won't use F&B... except she didn't tell us that until after we’d actually bought the stuff (Liberty range, Archive). Anyway, I think it was a newer or better formulation, as she ended up really liking it. We've got Dulux Trade (Pale Walnut) in another two rooms, and they don't seem much different to me.When I worked in the home dept. of Laura Ashley the consensus amongst my more experienced colleagues was that F&B paint was crap - thin, poor coverage, etc...
Prepared to be corrected though as I've never used it myself - I come from a family where 20 litres of brilliant white emulsion was the norm!
Damning piece, calling her grift for what it is. Unfortunately I don't think the average FT reader even knows who she is, but I could be wrong.This puts it as baldly in the press as I've ever seen it I think - specifically stating the drunk/spending/tramadol money was donated by the public, and was intended to support her work. And the FT too
If that is not true (it is) that is the sort of thing you would think she should be litigious over.
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Nine replies to this, not one of them supportive of Jack.
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They'd have to advise people to bring their own chairs as there wouldn't be enough for the people being sued let alone the observers in their court outfits.View attachment 1884369
Squig sums up her legal position, or lack of. She has destroyed any chance that she has of legals, and the call-outs are so frequent now that she couldn't sue them all if she even tried. She wouldn't allow her finances to be scrutinised in a legal case at this point anyway. Send LOL-os.
Apologies to @WoolyMammoth - was grunking last couple of pages and hadn't read your post yet. You said it better than I did. She's screwed legally.View attachment 1884369
Squig sums up her legal position, or lack of. She has destroyed any chance that she has of legals, and the call-outs are so frequent now that she couldn't sue them all if she even tried. She wouldn't allow her finances to be scrutinised in a legal case at this point anyway. Send LOL-os.
Don't apologise to me. I rock up, read 2 pages as it's all I can manage and then reply based on whatever has happened there. Then go away again.Apologies to @WoolyMammoth - was grunking last couple of pages and hadn't read your post yet. You said it better than I did. She's screwed legally.
That looks actually bangingher instructions for cooking a chicken makes me want to cry so careless and miserable. Roasting a chicken is one of the most joyful and comforting things to cook imo.
I recommend simon hopkinson style (prob not exactly accurate but from memory):
pat dry, season with salt and pepper, cover in butter, slice a lemon in half and squeeze all over the chicken then stuff the inside the cavity with a sprig of thyme. 15 mins at 210, baste, then a further 40 mins at 170.then turn the oven off and leave the chicken inside with the door ajar for a further 10 mins.
Then slice the chicken and let it bathe in all the delicious buttery lemony juices in the dish. serve with some sort of potatoes, braised greens and a big dollop of mustard