The Yank & The Limey

The Yank gets a cartoon bump on the head - how? (no wine was involved) The Pioneer Woman on U.S. TV - How? Why? Yuck. Do YOU fly a flag? Lab grown meat - would you? Call My Agent and The Stranger on Netflix. Red at The Bone by J. Woodson and Mix Tape by Jane Sanderson. Go De Godello wine from Soto Del Vicario and the most amazing Cacao experience - chocolate like you've never tasted before with Sylvia who does Cacao Ceremonies - contact her on FB CacaoCermony/Mallorca... don't forget 50 words or less for the flash fiction competition! The Yank gets a cartoon bump on the head - how? (no wine was involved) The Pioneer Woman on U.S. TV - How? Why? Yuck. Do YOU fly a flag? Lab grown meat - would you? Call My Agent and The Stranger on Netflix. Red at The Bone by J. Woodson and Mix Tape by Jane Sanderson. Go De Godello wine from Soto Del Vicario and the most amazing Cacao experience - chocolate like you've never tasted before with Sylvia who does Cacao Ceremonies - contact her on FB CacaoCermony/Mallorca... don't forget 50 words or less for the flash fiction competition! 

Kristy isn't feeling old, despite her birthday miracle of good weather! American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins - and the surrounding controversy about it, is Oprah Winfrey wrong to include it in her book club? The Limey is going vegetarian - any tips? How old were YOU when you had your first alcoholic drink? The Yank was 4, The Limey can't remember. Would you pay to pick Brad Pitts grapes? Kindles and Kedgeree and the most sublime wine, Murmuri from Mas Diox Bodega  of D.O.Q. Priorat- AND an interview with the maker to bring you there with her.

Writing tips - do NOT name your genitals. DO enter our Flash Fiction competition and win a bottle of wine chosen by The Yankee and some tutoring for free from The Limey. Bucket list of countries to visit...what's yours? Hemmingway says write drunk, edit sober - what do you do? Edna O'Brien and GIRL a disturbing and terrifying must read, The Yank is very disappointed with a corked wine.

What does Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina smell like? $75 will let you know (but there is a waiting list. Believe it or not) is it worth a candle? What do other world leaders smell like? Meet Troy Wear our funniest interview ever, and check out his vegan recipe for aubergines.  Or is it eggplant? Fidgeting - good or bad for you? What do you think about Boris asking for fundraising for a Big Ben bell dong? Knives with a square point - what's the point? Wine is the D. Pedro Adegas Galegas (delish) and check out The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis for a Library Classic... don't forget our Flash Fiction competition.

Fascinating documentary on BBC 4 about Jim Jones and the Jones Town Massacre, fascinating indeed and truly awful at the same time. Why are we all wishing David Bowie happy birthday?  And WTF is it with the church in Amsterdam ringing out Starman in tribute to him? Not that we don't all love him! Meghan and Harry resigned - all due to US :) Australian bush fires, Ready Steady Cook, RAIMAT chardonnay ( a serious wine according to the yank) and The Good Friend by Jo Baldwin. Shout out to Affordable Mallorca and the perils of walking 5 dogs on the beach.

Dracula, by the BBC - a must watch! Beware, blood and gore though and the fingernails gave The Yank the creeps. Ricky Gervaise rips apart Hollywood at the Golden Globes. Kristy talks wine with Colin Harkness (and wants his job), The Testaments by Margaret Attwood and bio-dynamic wines...Torres des Canonge by Toni Gelabert (Salud!). Enter our flash fiction contest and win some one-on-one tutoring and a bottle of wine chosen by The Yank!

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Last podcast of the decade... its the time of the year where it feels really normal to eat cake and drink cava for breakfast.... and chocolate- but don't! Enter our flash fiction competition instead and win some one-on-one creative writing mentoring AND a bottle of wine... 50 words or less on wine, books, reading, Mallorca and send it to us on FB, twitter or Instagram. Love to hear from you! what to do with a lemon glut? Let us know. The Witcher, Mallorca Files and A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Bubbles from Veritas and let's all practice gratitude but forget the NY resolutions - they're bollocks.

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With Anna Burtt we discuss Trump impeachment, Waffle Willies, The Crown, CagaTío (a weird Catalan version of Santa), Nitegeist, The Brighton Book Club, Childhood Books, Received Pronunciation, YA Fiction, Other People's Christmases, whist having a blind wine tasting of Sauvignon Blanc -one form the old world, one from the new...and Laura and Anna introduce Kristy to Panto! 

Art Basel, how much would you pay for a banana? Election Day and dogs of instagram at poling stations,  Dune and the box of PAIN, Christmas presents - no tat please! The Virago book of Food and the joy of eating, a happy wine, and the language we use for it and - wanna write a book? Message me, I can help you.

London Bridge attack, UK elections and the paper wall outside voters houses discouraging canvassing (v funny) and Laura's weekly rant (wishing and hoping for at the very least a hung parliament)  Narco subs (start that diving curse now) Film VS Books, wine - Eukeni Txakoli, and Kristy rants about sports news on her radio. Plus - Joanna Walton Flowers.com

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