Carla Jenkins
@carlajenkins.bsky.social
Audience Editor The Times Scotland • Saturday food news column in Alba & words everywhere • writer, reader, Joycean • lover of words & red lippy •
“It can be the small things that bring people closer. I kept telling Mum: “It’s not that deep.” But in truth it was. Years from now, even if we’re scattered in different places or some of us are gone, we’ll still have this small, simple sign of our time together”
Why I got a family tattoo — and Mum did too
Carla Jenkins on getting inked in Lanzarote with her mother and sisters
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June 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
“It can be the small things that bring people closer. I kept telling Mum: “It’s not that deep.” But in truth it was. Years from now, even if we’re scattered in different places or some of us are gone, we’ll still have this small, simple sign of our time together”
Your weekly round up of delicious things 🤤
April 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Your weekly round up of delicious things 🤤
Soooo funny and niche listening to the gen-z Glasgow gals explaining what matcha is to the old dudes who ask them what the queue is for outside the new blank street
April 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Soooo funny and niche listening to the gen-z Glasgow gals explaining what matcha is to the old dudes who ask them what the queue is for outside the new blank street
UGH I really miss old twitter
April 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
UGH I really miss old twitter
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🗣️ "Ozempic is ruining my social life (and I’m not taking it)"
@carlajenkins.bsky.social explores the awkwardness of dining with friends who no longer have an appetite
@carlajenkins.bsky.social explores the awkwardness of dining with friends who no longer have an appetite
Ozempic is ruining my social life (and I’m not taking it)
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February 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🗣️ "Ozempic is ruining my social life (and I’m not taking it)"
@carlajenkins.bsky.social explores the awkwardness of dining with friends who no longer have an appetite
@carlajenkins.bsky.social explores the awkwardness of dining with friends who no longer have an appetite
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About 5,000 women a year have breast-reduction surgery.
This is why I became one of them, explains @carlajenkins.bsky.social ⬇️
This is why I became one of them, explains @carlajenkins.bsky.social ⬇️
What I learnt from having a breast op, aged 19
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April 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
About 5,000 women a year have breast-reduction surgery.
This is why I became one of them, explains @carlajenkins.bsky.social ⬇️
This is why I became one of them, explains @carlajenkins.bsky.social ⬇️
'I recently overheard a posh-off between two parents comparing notes on their children’s refined palates. One served her kid trout only to be asked if it was line-caught. “Well, mine was at a friend’s for dinner and asked if the pesto ingredients were foraged”'
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Healthy eating has become a badge of moral superiority
I have a new favourite form of cognitive dissonance. It involves watching the kind of TV show where scientists and food industry types tell me that eating crisps will shave years off my life while one
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December 2, 2024 at 2:52 PM
'I recently overheard a posh-off between two parents comparing notes on their children’s refined palates. One served her kid trout only to be asked if it was line-caught. “Well, mine was at a friend’s for dinner and asked if the pesto ingredients were foraged”'
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Sourdough from a starter made in 1984? How Orwellian. I love it 🍞 www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Best places to eat and drink in Scotland this week
Bavarian Bakehouse, one of Glasgow’s oldest bakeries is now also one of its newest. Plus half-priced food all week at Zibibbo restaurant and bar
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December 2, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Sourdough from a starter made in 1984? How Orwellian. I love it 🍞 www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
What's interesting enough for a first post on a new social media platform? Arguably, it'd be to post nothing at all....
December 2, 2024 at 2:42 PM
What's interesting enough for a first post on a new social media platform? Arguably, it'd be to post nothing at all....
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Is it 70,000 farms, or is it 500?
This is what proper, rigorous fact-checking looks like 👇
This is what proper, rigorous fact-checking looks like 👇
November 23, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Is it 70,000 farms, or is it 500?
This is what proper, rigorous fact-checking looks like 👇
This is what proper, rigorous fact-checking looks like 👇
What better to celebrate joining Bluesky than sharing our deliciously good restaurant review this week?
Great wines; food needs work; stunning area (and a fab description of Stockbridge on a Sunday, reminding me of my month living there for the Fringe)
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Great wines; food needs work; stunning area (and a fab description of Stockbridge on a Sunday, reminding me of my month living there for the Fringe)
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Sotto, Edinburgh restaurant review: gorgeous place, but it needs to pack more punch
This new addition to Stockbridge’s foodie renaissance needs to taste as good as it looks
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November 21, 2024 at 3:04 PM
What better to celebrate joining Bluesky than sharing our deliciously good restaurant review this week?
Great wines; food needs work; stunning area (and a fab description of Stockbridge on a Sunday, reminding me of my month living there for the Fringe)
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Great wines; food needs work; stunning area (and a fab description of Stockbridge on a Sunday, reminding me of my month living there for the Fringe)
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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October 21, 2024 at 1:55 PM
🗞️ More and more Times and Sunday Times journalists and staff are joining BlueSky.
We’ll be updating this starter kit as they do so, you should give them a follow
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We’ll be updating this starter kit as they do so, you should give them a follow
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