A nostalgic trip to Seventies Soho

and the first Menopaws walk with Missy Puppy! 'Do you remember where we parked the car?'

Me and Missy Puppy at Raby Castle in Co Durham. Can we airbrush the badger stripe?

Join me for a stroll down memory lane of Soho in London of the Seventies and Eighties, and it’s the very first episode of the Menopaws! A dog walk with Missy the collie and Boris the naughty beagle in the walled garden of Raby Castle in Co Durham.

Who knew fashion and food could be so interlinked!

Recipe of the week … and a trip down memory lane

Cranks Nut Rissole with Riverford Organic’s seed slaw

Ah, this one holds many memories. 1981, and my first proper job in journalism was on Company magazine, the baby feminist sister of Cosmopolitan, then edited by the fearsome Deirdre McSharry (she discovered Twiggy. Respect!). In reception I would crane my neck to drink in all the Cosmo cover girls on the walls: Gia, Brooke, Cindy, Kelly, Eva, Paulina, Kim Alexis! Always big hair, red lips, cleavage.

Cindy Crawford on the cover of Cosmo, 1987

I have no idea how I got the job on Company, as I had no talent at all: painfully shy, deaf, with acne and thread veins.