Jack Monroe #540 Meet the new Jack, same as the old Jack.

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I dunno. There was a lot of air in that hair back in those days…

I think they just left the middle aged Home Counties “poofiness” in it and brushed it straight upwards to make her look more “trendy” and less like a 50something Mary Archer.
 
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Rockabilly Jack was the cover of The Observer food magazine in ?late summer/ early autumn 2014.
Recipes included peach & chickpea curry but also battered fried cod roe.
Jack's version of scampi
I feel like both rockabilly as a trend* and Jack peaked in 2014.

*as opposed to rockabilly as a lifestyle.
 
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Aunty Pat channelling the spirit of Vianne Rocher in her local community theatre production of Chocolat.


 
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In the early 1990s Auntie Pat was briefly involved with her local amdram society. After a number of shows where she played passer by number three she was delighted to finally land a named part. This picture is from her starring role as Simple Simon in the 1993 production of Jack and the Beanstalk.
 
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I’ve had a(n admittedly unforensic) search and can’t see where he’s at odds with the scheme. His website and the Guardian article about him both align with the scheme’s goals. Would you have any pointers as to where you read that he diverges please?
 
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So... regarding this 5 year Nutrition degree that was once mentioned. What are the odds that guset is actually doing it?
She announced it in her DIVA.pdf confessional in October 2021, and by February 2022 said she'd put it back by a year because of having taken too much on (lol)



As the 1 year deferral has long expired, I'm sure she's beavering away at her studies as we speak and is therefore too busy for Twatter.
 
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He’s saying he thinks they should extend the free primary meals as in London per the Guardian article. All his quotes are specifically about Sadiq Khan as well as previously citing that we are mean compared to Scotland and Wales as they are rolling out free primary meals - “He highlighted London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan to make school meals freely available to all primary-aged pupils for 2023/24, a policy the chef suggested should be replicated across England.”

“Mayor Sadiq is actually doing it… local people like up in York are doing it, in Wales you get it, in Scotland you get it. England is the meanest.”


The scheme is saying they want to extend it first to all families on universal credit - ie not everyone at first because if there is a limited budget the priority should be pupils who actually need them rather than “everyone in EYFS - Y6” because kids don’t suddenly cease to be hungry in Y7 and plenty of primary parents can afford school meals easily and/or are able to provide a balanced packed lunch.

He meets them in terms of the ultimate goal being to roll out to everyone but he doesn’t seem to agree with them on the first step and his IMO is missing a huge part of the need. Yes absolutely it should be free food for all school pupils EYFS-Y11 but if that’s not realistic to implement straight away they should start with extending it to the kids who need it across that entire age group rather than a blanket “primary kids”.

ETA: and Sadiq Khan has equally failed to appreciate that of course, so Jamie isn’t alone.
 
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Controversial opinion clearly but I think some of those photos are the nicest I've seen of her; kitschy AF and very professionally done/edited obviously but I think LOVE CAKE is quite funny (reference to the LOVE/HATE classic) and we could always 'shop the A to an O should we get sufficiently bored.

It's just another example of something she could have used to further her career but... didn't bother.
 
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Are those pics pre boogly skeleton and bum crack tattoo?
Yep, Mr Boogly and the bum crack were just a twinkle in the tattoo artiste’s eye at this point. These pics were Feb 2014 just as she was getting together with Leggy. Mr Boogles came along when she went to the USA in August 2015 with Big Lin after Leggy got sick of her and sent her scampering back off to Southend*.

Here’s Aunty Pat that time in the 1980s when she tried to jazz up Coffee Morning with the girls by squeezing into her teenage daughter Cheryl’s ‘Pepsi and Shirlie for Top Shop’ outfit, doing her hair like Uncle Dennis’s brother Les used to wear his when he was big into the Stray Cats and sticking a beach towel on the wall at a rakish angle, .
*oh I’m sorry. Correction: Leggy didn’t get sick of her. She GREW UNEASY WITH THE MEDIA LIFESTYLE AND WANTED TO GO BACK TO SOUTHEND. ETA @Mendacious Trumpet tattoo timeline
 
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LOV£ HATS
 
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I think these ^points up^ landgirl / US diner / rockabilly guests were when I came across her (bit gauche). I quite like the look tbh, but it’s probably more about the brief than the thief.
 
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Respectfully I disagree, dear heart. The worst thing about Rockabilly Jack was the woman who got that photo tattooed on her arm.
 
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Respectfully I disagree, dear heart. The worst thing about Rockabilly Jack was the woman who got that photo tattooed on her arm.
you’re right. In colour no less, “YO

ETA I still think rather than admit she got a giant Jack in a meat-shirt tattooed on her arm, that woman either wears long sleeves at all times or pretends it’s not Jack at all but a tattoo of Captain Kate Janeway when she went to prison that time.

imagine having Jack’s shit tattoos tattooed onto you. What a berk.
 
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