Just rewatching Nigella's Christmas cookery programme. She really is lovely in it

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She is charming.

Lovely recipes as well.

I remember reading an interview where Nigella was talking to Julie Burchill about Christmas, Julie had had lovely happy Christmases as a child so she didn't really give a monkeys, yet Nigella had a tense upbringing so as an adult wants all of Christmas to be perfect for her family.

Anyway in light of whAt has happened to her life this year watching the show is a bit bittersweet. I hope she has a happy time with her children this year.

Anyway I recommend the programme, and the Christmas book. It's NEARLY December after all!

I make the chocolate brownies from Feast for work and they are practically inhaled. Everyone asks for the recipe.

I have just ordered myself a bright red, round necked fitted cardigan a la Nigella. I am going to wear it when cooking festive food in a sexy manner, while bathed in the flatteringly soft glow of fairy lights, often reaching up to select shiny utensils from a hanging ceiling rack. I don't have one of these so I will be miming this part.

Mind you it IS a bit odd that she never covers her very expensive clothes with a pinny; they must all have stains on them (i'm a realist ) nice to have so much money

I always love reading what she writes.

I sometimes like cooking what she cooks.

I admire her because, as well as being gorgeous and not a skinny rake, she has been through real tragedy in her life. It's easy to look at someone like her and assume that everything has come easy and she's got lots of ££££ and that's all that matters.
Mind you, DH and I laughed out loud when she took her flask of soup in the top of the bus, that was just trying too hard to be ordinary!

I agree Davros that money isn't the answer to a difficult upbringing but it sure helps.

Though if you want to move fast in gridlocked London it's often quicker to take the bus ( I'll never forget me and other bus passengers laughing as we whizzed past a very expensive roller in the bus lane).

These days the London buses are great. A few years ago, if you just missed the bus, you had no idea when the next one was coming and it wasn't usually for ages. It's really changed for the better.
I don't know if nigella had a minted upbringing, it certainly sounds posh but I'm not sure how much £ there was. And she and John diamond never looked rolling in it. That obviously changed when she became successful and then made the mistake of marrying that vile man who only seems interested in acquiring objects

Oh she was born with a silver spoon (A Lyons Teashop spoon ) in her mouth; the family owned the Forte hotel and restaurant chain

Thanks, I didn't know that. Interesting.