However, their season is short, and peas are one of the few vegetables that truly are just as good from the freezer.
Mum would often sit my vegetable-fearing sister with a pile of pods to open, knowing that for every pea that would make it into the bowl, one would make it into Lucy’s mouth. If you can get them in season, very soon after they’re been picked, they are sweet and delicious. You can, of course, use fresh peas straight from their pods instead of the frozen variety. It can also be eaten as the witches do – at the end of the summer, piping hot and spiked with Formula 8 delayed-action mouse-maker. It is bright, fresh and summery a soup that can be eaten cold, on a stifling hot day. This soup, on the other hand, is green pea soup. But it is a soup you eat on the sofa, not one you order in a seaside hotel. It has scraps of ham stirred through it and is reassuringly beige in colour. It is a rich, unctuous split pea soup, the kind that coats the roof of your mouth and warms you from the inside out. My mum’s is the best pea soup in the world, made with the ham bone we have left over every Christmas, and frozen in batches until autumn hits. And I have never stopped thinking about the girl who disappeared into the painting. Women who wore gloves on hot days, or walked awkwardly in pointy-toed shoes, were given a generous berth. And The Witches stayed with me for years. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1983. A ghost story told by a family friend about a woman and her cat, bricked up behind a wall in an old house, featured in my nightmares for months. A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert in witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice. I stopped drinking water before bed for weeks after watching The Sixth Sense, terrified that I would encounter ghosts if I had to find my way to the toilet on my own. the Graphic Novel Roald Dahl and Penelope Bagieu 29.95 27.55 in cart add to cart The Witches: A Set of Plays: A Set of Plays Roald Dahl 6.99 6. The Witches isnt easy to summarize because a lot of what happens is rich, detailed description, as opposed to events.Of course, there are some events thrown in there, too, and here they are: In the introduction, our narrator tells us that witches are real. I feigned illness at a sleepover when I was 14, when the girls from school decided we were going to watch Sleepy Hollow. I have always been a proper scaredy-cat, wide awake at night because of something I’ve seen, or heard, or imagined. I was young when I read it, and it terrified me. Though none of his other books mean as much to me as Matilda and Danny, I do have particularly vivid memories of The Witches.
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