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Domestic Goddess Re-imagined

Books are dreams of lives you may never have. I’m not referring to Harlequin romances, vampire-prince fantasy numbers or sci-fi tomes with large breasted women on their covers. I’m talking, specifically, about cookbooks. The Rose Bakery’s delightful ‘Breakfast Lunch Tea’ is tonight’s bedtime reading. It is a sweet, deep lime-coloured hardback [...]

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  • A DEEP, DARK SECRET | November 24th 2008 "What lies inside was once subject to the Official Secrets Act. But now this mysterious property is up for sale, and so I find myself with a few other journalists on the other side of the doors, signing consent forms and handing in my mobile phone (whose signal had mysteriously vanished as soon as I crossed the threshold). A lift takes us down 100 feet, deeper than the London Underground, which we can hear rumbling above us. A set of atom-bomb-proof doors are swung open and we step out into the secret of Furnival Street: the Kingsway tunnels, a miniature city beneath a city." #

Welcome to Sideshow Beastie

“Dance like you’re stamping on a human face forever, love like you’ve been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there’s no such thing as God.” — Warren Ellis