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Equity, inclusion. ANTI-RACIST. Proud of my Black|Cypriot|GB family. Childfree by choice. Hugged Nigel Slater.🧿💜🙏🏾 PRO CHOICE. PRO PALESTINE. PRO TRANS. PRO LOVE.

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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A small rant. (No, that's not me, but I think we'd be chums.) open.substack.com/pub/cookwitc...
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Practical Magick
(Hi, how are you? I've been very busy. My brain ran out of words.)
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Root Beer is loathsome. I found someone eating US chewing gum once and it just smelled like TCP! I had to leave the room.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
When Elton John Narrates House Work... youtu.be/UsMgCijUg_Q?...
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Elton John Narrates Housework
YouTube video by Holderness Family Music
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
To misquote the marvel that was Margot Leadbetter, "Christmas doesn't come in a van, it isn't delivered." www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ijgoj
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The Good Life (Christmas Special) Richard Briers • Felicity Kendal • Penelope Keith
Dailymotion video by Ade Binelli
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
...some Jehovah's Witnesses who told me the world needed more people like me. I was given a christmas present by the Sikh family across from us and a huge hug from a Big Issue seller, who gave me a tiny knitted snowman to say thank you. Christmas this year feels good, but it's what YOU make it...
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
I'm sure my brain is adrift in a sea of days. Which is fine. Yes, it is Saturday, but it doesn't feel Saturday-ish. Monday probably won't feel Monday-ish either. Christmas day being on a Thursday felt like a Sunday and Boxing Day felt like a Saturday. Um. This morning I had a lovely chat with...
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Every year I look for frost, wish for snow and think of you. (Except when I'm in Cyprus because that would be silly.) Here is an olive tree in London at dawn instead, after a heavy frost.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Thank you my lovely! Gosh I love wholemeal flour in a cake. I have some Einkorn that needs using, so I may well give this a try. I hope all your festivities are peaceful and very merry. 😍🎄
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Why flog a dead horse? They could as easily just come here and let Twatter drown in its own bile.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Nope. Y'all come over to Bluesky. Most of us are nice, and it isn't an Elon controlled space.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Is that the show with the delectable Morris Chestnut?
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I find myself thinking what I can cook with it as well. Mowgli's tea steeped chickpeas spring to mind!
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I don't often step outside my liking for plain 'builder's tea' - strong, with milk, 2 not sugars - but I treated myself to a mixed pack of Twinings chai teabags. Vanilla was nice, quite relaxing, but today was Gingerbread Spice. Good lord. That is just delicious. Steeped for a good 5 minutes mind!
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
For me it was work experience, working alongside my grandad in a health food shop. We got fresh bread rolls in every day and the whole shop seemed full of sunlight and good smells.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Here is a rather lovely vegan side dish that can be made non vegan if you wish. I'm halfway through making it, and the sauce smells so comforting! auntiebulgaria.substack.com/p/a-festive-...
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A festive cauliflower and broccoli bake
Tastes of bread sauce, has the comfort of cauliflower cheese, gets something green on your plate, and is vegan (or not). This festive side dish kills a lot of (metaphorical) birds with one stone.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I have been watching/listening to a lot of Yungblud and Aerosmith this weekend. This has resulted in another round of 'I really must get more tattoos'. (And still loving the white bits in my hair.) I keep saying that, and never actually get around to booking a tattoo in!
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
And we know that the soundtrack that kicks in would be Wipeout.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
"Prejudice...a word, which, in the mouth of the average American, describes a cowardice he has not the courage to fix." Replace 'American' with person. This came from James Baldwin, and today can be applied to all levels of bigots. Fear into hatred usually reveals a woefully uninformed being. #BBC
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Now I shall go back to finding every YungBlud video on the internet, and lose myself in that glorious young man's voice and delightful attitude.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A Non New Year resolution: in addition to blocking every random follower I don't know, or who has no profile photo/posts, I am going to instantly block any man who decides to 'well actually..." me, even if they don't use those exact words. Man on the Internet Voice is quite easy to spot. [eyeroll]
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
I used to think that the BBC was a wonderful invention, because they've put so much information out there. Now they are hiding it. Yes, they do lots of fab stuff, but I DO NOT WANT PEOPLE THROWN UNDER THE BUS TO KEEP THE BBC. The BBC and JKR can now get in the bin. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
The BBC used to be the voice of reason, now it appears to be the voice of Rowling.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
My 'Wiccan' bunting arrived. I'm in love with it. So much so I have ordered two more sets: Halloween and winter gothic. You know, just for every day. 😁
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I probably was until the clocks changed, and now I can't be arsed to go out. 😄
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
What fresh hell is this? Nobody needs to know how much I have spent on anything, even me!
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I can't wait for them to get here. (I also hope they are as nice as they look.)
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The Right to HRT Should be Enshrined in Law open.substack.com/pub/cookwitc...
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The Right to HRT Should be Enshrined in Law
I include trans people. If that offends you, this is not your page. Trans rights = human rights; a super rich bully of vulnerable minorities who has a platform and a superyacht* can just get tae F.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I ordered some nice Yule decorations from Etsy this week, to go on our cast iron fireplace. I can't wait for them to get here. I'm not sure they will ever come down, to be honest!
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I've read today about the legal challenges each organisation faces. Brought by 'people' with bottomless funds, neither of them can afford to fight or they would cease to exist. They can only bide their time. It's hellish, and awful.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We're in cheese, crackers and chutney season. Hurrah! I say this is someone who is, quite frankly, *always* in that mindset, no matter what month it is. #EverythingsBettaWithFeta
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I have some in the cupboard from when Sainsers gave me a bottle of vodka by mistake. It's been soaking for two years, and you just reminded me about it!
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Me: I'll just nip out to the freezer. The Weather: media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2l...
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Happy Diwali friends who celebrate! (I made this. I am proud of myself.) #Diwali
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Finally I wrote something. My writing brain seems to have been on leave for a while. #BoroughMarket #Olives open.substack.com/pub/cookwitc...
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An 'ology
(I am showing my age by referring to an 'ology. Points if you know where that is from.)
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
She was and will remain an absolute icon. Time for reruns of EVERYTHING please. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dame Patricia Routledge obituary: The life of TV's magnificently snobby 'Hyacinth Bucket'
A much-loved actress who became famous in the role of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Excellent Thing 2: (timeline cleanse, good dogs, very good dogs.) youtu.be/nFVHaus_pjI?...
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Olive and Mabel. Episode 4 - The Company Meeting
YouTube video by mrandrewcotter
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Excellent Thing 1: youtube.com/shorts/WH5zY...
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Autistic Tylenol?!
YouTube video by Jeremy Andrew Davis
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Tell Keir Starmer to scrap his ID card scheme
With his government in turmoil and Nigel Farage breathing down his neck, Keir Starmer has reached for the panic button, announcing a scheme for ID cards that would be compulsory to prove your right to...
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
It really is. They get so swamped, and yes, I know, advertising, revenue etc., but sometimes they just want to be local and stay small.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Thank you kind sir!
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
It's the latter. People flock in, the place can't cope and have long waiting times, so they get bad reviews and so it goes.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The Guy Fieri effect seems to cause places to close down.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
She said this to a gay man. Then when called on it, got pissy. Turns out she's still here though. Odd that. She said "It was a test."...
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Just finished reading @paulcornell.bsky.social's The Gnomes of Lychford. I have to say a lot of it hit home, especially the accuracy about both the danger and the stupidity of a mob. Please to be reading the whole Lychford series, they really are most excellent. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074CFCSN...
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Witches of Lychford
Visit Amazon's Witches of Lychford page and shop for all Witches of Lychford books. Check out pictures, author information and reviews of Witches of Lychford
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
When one writes about made up characters, is it usual to think and be a little concerned about how they're getting on when you've left them partway through a tricky conversation? Asking for a friend.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Turns out they weren't understand us, either! Aah it was a very Wednesday Wednesday.
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Cookwitch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @cookwitch.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Oh I know I will!
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