UK Literary Luvvies #3 Logistical reasons mean the only recommendations I have are Greek cleaning products

[Sideboard Bob]

Hate it too

Last alexandras_list was 7 May for those following the lore

I think I’m probably missing it more than she does

 

[queenamber]

This lavish party for Elizabeth is even funnier when you remember Justin went on How To Fail to talk about how he had no real friends.

 

[kettlecrisp32]

This lavish party for Elizabeth is even funnier when you remember Justin went on How To Fail to talk about how he had no real friends.

Ugh. She’s such a smug show-off.

 

[It’s The Truman Show]

Anyone else find her husband a bit…..meh? Slimey. ED continually flaunting the fact she’s married is a bit pathetic and sickly. Wouldn’t be surprised to find her husband has cleaned her out financially and was a cad of the worst order.

 

[maytoseptember]

Ugh. She’s such a smug show-off.

Ugh, isn’t she just? I just get the impression she has zero self-awareness of how she comes across.

Also, her husband looks like her could be her sibling.

 

[atome74]

Ugh, isn’t she just? I just get the impression she has zero self-awareness of how she comes across.

I actually cannot handle her facial expressions. Somehow every single photo is chosen for maximum smugness.

 

[BumbleBeatrix]

This lavish party for Elizabeth is even funnier when you remember Justin went on How To Fail to talk about how he had no real friends.

Was all this stuff free and that's why she's thanking them?! If so, it's giving such scrounging influencer vibes.

 

[garfield123]

Was all this stuff free and that's why she's thanking them?! If so, it's giving such scrounging influencer vibes.

Hopefully not as she didn’t declare any of it as gifted.

 

[geneticsgirl]

Don't forget not to post smug posts about your kids incase you upset Elizabeth. She is unbearable smug. Only follow at this point for her gorgeous ginger cat

 

[petitspois]

I think that's how smug people manage to get away with it. They make it known they have one horrible element to their lives (infertility in her case obviously) and then they feel they develop some sort of halo that makes them above criticism for bragging about the rest of their lives.

 

[GeminiMoon]

It does all seem a bit too good to be true for Elizabeth - ok, she didn’t get her coveted baby and that’s got to be painful but she did land a millionaire husband that cooks and apparently adores her and is her perfect match within a relatively short time frame of online dating.
I feel like she’s the type that would plaster her perfect relationship all over social media and then when it’s all over say she was miserable the whole time and it was never right.

 

[Bezzzz]

She got the dull rich ‘good looking’ guy, with few friends and money. She’s moulding him to her version of fun - look he cooks, look posing for couples photos, eye bleeping the camera, look my stuff.

literally playdough

 

[GeminiMoon]

Ooh I think Stacey is trolling us - she’s just put up a grid post featuring the weekly shop
We didn’t think you NEVER did the weekly shop Stacey!

In other antics, she has also contacted Paloma Faith’s publicist to complain about her ripping off her book but slightly regrets it.

 

[soph30]

Does Charlotte ivers have to write a food column- can’t we have someone who knows about food who’s been doing it for years

 

[SharkAttack]

Does Charlotte ivers have to write a food column- can’t we have someone who knows about food who’s been doing it for years

Agree I find this writer very annoying and juvenile in style.

 

[soph30]

Agree I find this writer very annoying and juvenile in style.

She’s not a foodie! I don’t mind fresh voices, but I want someone with real experience in good food doing a food column

 

[SharkAttack]

She’s not a foodie! I don’t mind fresh voices, but I want someone with real experience in good food doing a food column

Or even no experience but a genuine passion for the stuff. She doesn’t have that even.

 

[jenmarks]

Can't imagine she'll be getting the call from MasterChef any time soon.

 

[Goujon]

Complete pet gripe here - people who have minimal knowledge about food getting a food column or restaurant review column in a paper or magazine. I have seen it happen more than once.

 

[GeminiMoon]

Steve Jones’ wife Phylicia Jackson-Jones is a good example of that. I think she has had professional training but her cooking and food styling are nothing special. She’s just a good home cook. Her Instagram feed compared to many other food writers/influencers that I follow is below average in terms of content, aesthetics and follower numbers.

Yet she has written features for Waitrose magazine many times. Presumably because her husband has worked with them too.

I like Phylicia and I like some of her food but it seems unfair when there are so many truly talented cooks, chefs and food writers not getting anything like that level of success and exposure.