How to Skin a Lion Archives

How to be a Good Hostess: 1950s manual

After writing How to Skin a Lion: A Treasury of Outmoded Advice I have become somewhat of a magpie for seeking out old fashioned manuals […]

14 January 2016

In my last blog I discussed some of the bygone ingredients referenced in How to Skin a Lion, this time I am going to […]

5 June 2015

While writing and researching How to Skin a Lion I came across a number of bygone ingredients I had never heard of. I researched […]

22 May 2015

In the run up to the 14 May publication of my book How to Skin a Lion, I thought I might blog here about how […]

13 May 2015

In the run up to the 14 May publication of my book How to Skin a Lion, I thought I might blog here about how […]

7 May 2015

Over the last few months I have been blogging about my challenge to try out some of the outmoded advice in my upcoming book How […]

22 April 2015

A couple of weeks ago a lovely journalist, Lydia Fallon from the Cambridge Evening News came to interview me about my new book How to […]

11 April 2015

If you are a regular reader of this blog you will know what I am up to, but if not, let me explain! My book […]

8 April 2015

Now, before you get excited this is not an ancient lost skill of mole whispering, whereby using the power of stroking and blowing in a […]

1 April 2015

When I was searching for entries in the book which I could recreate myself this one immediately jumped out at me. I have lovely memories […]

25 March 2015