HeyJaredMelanie Cable-Alexander
Journalist, author, editor, B&B Hostess, most at home in the kitchen surrounded by family, children and dogs
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These boots were made for walking (opens the original)
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When a B&B guest came to stay a few years ago, I never expected her to give me a pair of Bottega Veneta boots, and in a size or two too big. It was during that fashion season when there was a craze for big footwear. The bigger the boot the better, and the bigger the sole, better still. <s
Caught wearing next to nothing (opens the original)
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I have just skipped downstairs in a white Snoopy-emblazoned T-shirt that doesn't quite reach my bottom, and in not much else apart from a pair of knickers, and felt a delicious sense of rebelliousness I haven't felt since I was a child protesting about rules and regulations that didn't seem to add up. Like having to tie my shoelaces.If I were outside, I could be caught for indecent exposure, but I'm in my own home and should feel free to skip downstairs in anything I choose to wear. But I don't.
The morning I was ticked off in my own kitchen (opens the original)
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Our worst guests ever strike again (opens the original)
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Our “worst guests ever,” as we now refer to them, have cropped up again in a bizarre and coincidental way. These were the ones who hadn’t realised that not all of our bedrooms are en suite, and even though they had allocated bathrooms and the house to themselves, kicked up such a hufflepuff about it that I nearly lost my temper for the first time ever, and narrowly avoided telling them not to stay at all, which would have been a first too. As it was, I suggested, through gritted teeth to stop my
The ferry, the spy and the death ship (opens the original)
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We have someone staying who has made headline news, national and international. Well, not personally (though she has done so in a professional capacity occasionally), but she was embroiled in an event that caught the imagination of people worldwide for she and her husband were on the boat that became a symbol of the early pandemic chaos.The conversation over breakfast came about thanks to a connection with, of all things, Gravesend, an ancient riverside town in north Kent that is famous for havi
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