Anna Tuckett
@annatuckett
Woman of a certain age, yet another aspiring writer, parent carer, border collie & bantam owner, Wiltshire dweller. Will answer any question about Polish food. 🇵🇱🇬🇧 My Substack:
This week on my Substack, I have written about the Platonic ideal of heatwave food: Lithuanian chilled soup. Plus some more food musings and a few recommendations. Hope you enjoy it! open.substack.com/pub/annatuck...
It’s such a fun watch, and I get that Julia May Jones was making a point about Nabokov’s Lolita by choosing the name Vladimir, but it sure makes online search more tedious, on account of a certain villain of the same name.
I went to see the Tate Britain’s Constable/Turner exhibition at the cinema this afternoon. It was wonderful to sit about 15 mins walk away from Salisbury Cathedral and see Constable’s depiction of it in close up on a big screen.
Did you know Robert Burns had a beloved border collie called Luath (it means “fast, swift, quick” in Gaelic), whom he immortalised in his verse? Dill, being very “luath” this morning.
Biscoff’s conquest of the British food industry continues unabated. I couldn’t even try the ice-cream - both types were sold out.
Happy Leftovers Day! As is the time-honoured tradition, I started the Boxing Day by eating leftovers: a boozy Italian trifle, which was a triumph. @nigella.bsky.social calls it “a summer trifle”,but it is so decadent & festive it works perfectly at Christmas. (Photo: toasted almond flakes on top)
Frozen rose in my garden, where it’s one degree Celsius above zero this morning.
In Poland, dark and dreary November is bookended by two occasions that revolve around candlelight. I’ve already written about All Saints’ Day; this week, I explain what old-fashioned keys, candles and fortune-telling have to do with Scotland’s patron saint. open.substack.com/pub/annatuck...
A reader on Substack was kind enough to comment on my photo: “Absolutely stunning! You should print and frame that. 🤩”
Good morning! A tulip tree, which I photographed in Stourhead this time last year.
A little light reading for the weekend. One reader commented: “This is such an enjoyable read! I'll be noticing bows everywhere now 😂”https://open.substack.com/pub/annatuckett/p/when-in-doubt-put-a-bow-on-it?r=2dha&utm_medium=ios