Taking stock
Jan 13, 2021
2 minutes
Tom Parker Bowles
DOUBLE, double toil and trouble/ Fire burn and cauldron bubble.’ Shakespeare’s witches may have been a dab hand at nefarious potions, but their stock-making skills were dire. The true art, as any self-respecting, Hecate-hailing hag should know, is all about the blip, blip, rather than the bubble, bubble. Low and slow, rather than hell’s ablazin’.
They’re not alone in their ignorance. Like the creation of mayonnaise and
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