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Food has always been a topic of interest in our family. For a start it’s a mixed marriage: my husband is an omnivore and I have been a vegetarian since I was twenty-four (before we met). When we had our three daughters we had to decide how we were going to bring them up. As a working mum, I didn’t have the time to purée delicious little dishes for them and the vegetarian options in baby food were limited to two. So, the decision made itself: they were going to be omnivores.  

My thanks to Martin Impey for the following Blog piece which shares some of his own family history alongside the inspiration behind his outstanding latest book ~ Blitz - One Family's War. This is a book you need to see, to hold, to absorb, it is very moving and incredibly detailed and I felt that this week, a week in which we are remembering those events of the past which this book relates to, was the perfect opportunity to share Martin's own words. The Beginning To say that

First, make no mistake, adults love horror stories too. It’s just that teenagers are more likely to go to movies to watch them together, which in turn leads to more horror films being made with teenagers as protagonists as studios cash in on this. Money drives the world, right? But still … the violence in horror – the death, torture, all that. Why do we like it at all? A million theories. But one thing is for sure: many of us do, not just teenagers. As Christopher Booker says