Christmas may nearly be upon us but with the mild weather we’ve had until the past week, autumn is still very much in my head. [Read on...]
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I’m pleased to announce that my fundraiser for Breakthrough’s Breast Cancer awareness month during October raised £100. Many thanks to all of you who donated. During October I came across various media features to do with treating cancer, including a radio item about how cancer patients need to keep their strength up with healthy [Read on...] 
Review of Peppa Pig World, at Paultons Park on the edge of the New Forest. [Read on...] 
The Goodyear Blimp will tour the skies in 20 European countries during 2011 to highlight the Goodyear brand at various consumer based activities and events. [Read on...] 
Not an anniversary, not a birthday, just a badly needed opportunity to recharge batteries and stand back from everything for a while. My husband and I jumped on the Eurostar to Paris whilst my mother “borrowed” Ted for three days at home. [Read on...] 
Here is a quick 2 minute video of my recent day out in Whitstable, Kent. After my last film showing you the beach and harbour, today’s clip is all about the independent shops – who currently have an array of Easter and royal wedding window displays. [Read on...] Today’s post concludes my recent series about Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Raymond Blanc’s Oxfordshire hotel and cookery school. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a list of other posts in this series covering the accommodation, dinner, breakfast and the patisserie class at Raymond Blanc Cookery School. A stroll around the garden [Read on...] This post continues my current series about Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Raymond Blanc’s Oxfordshire hotel and cookery school. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a list of other posts in this series covering the accommodation, dinner and the patisserie class at Raymond Blanc Cookery School. [Read on...] This post continues my current series about Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Raymond Blanc’s Oxfordshire hotel and cookery school. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a list of other posts in this series covering the accommodation, breakfast and the patisserie class at Raymond Blanc Cookery School. [Read on...] January is not usually a month known for pleasant surprises. Blinking with disbelief at my inbox, I received an invitation to stay overnight and take the one day patisserie class at Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, home to the Raymond Blanc Cookery School. “Yes… I think I’m free that day…!” [Read on...] We drove to Cucuron and discovered the sleepiest of Provencal villages. Streets were deserted. Saucepans belonging to vielle madames clattered as we passed kitchen windows. [Read on...] 
We have an Interflora Essential Christmas Hamper to give away to one lucky reader and it contains the following treats for the festive season and beyond: Presented in a Wicker Hamper Robin Reed Handmade Concerto Musical Crackers x 8 Pinot Grigio Il Papavero Italy 2008 75cl Primitivo Il Papavero Italy 2007 75cl Warres Warrior Special Reserve Port 37.5cl and much much more [Read on...] 
In the Little Black Book of Hotels, Alex reveals her pick of the very best places to stay in Great Britain. Whether you’re searching for a boutique city bolthole or luxurious country house or Michelin-starred restaurant with rooms, you’ll find it here. [Read on...] Herceg Novi is an easy 30 minute drive from Dubrovnik airport just over the Croatian border. You can fly there with Easy Jet in summer and British Airways throughout the year. [Read on...] 
Ajvar can be hot or not, so add red chillis if you want spice and leave them out if you don’t. Ajvar can be used to top meat, cous cous or my particular favourite, to mix with scrambled eggs as a kind of piperade. [Read on...] Two weeks ago I returned from a very wet week in Montenegro. Long term readers (although admittedly I only had about 30 subscribers then) may recall this is not the first of my holidays in Montenegro as I went there 12 months ago. Last year we had glorious sunshine and 30c temperatures in early [Read on...] 
My favourite use of tortilla wraps is the quesadilla. You can put anything in a quesadilla, it’s the Mexican answer to toasted sandwich much like Croque Monsieur is for the French. [Read on...] “Are you happy?” is a little question with big answers. If “yes” then that’s cool and you can roll back on the sofa with a glass of prosecco or pant your way round a squash court, whatever floats your boat. If you’re not, do you annoy your friends and endlessly grizzle? Or alternatively, like [Read on...] Last weekend whilst Maison Cupcake was whizzing through the air between Blogger and WordPress I was whizzing through the air myself from Birmingham to Dublin. Ted was safely despatched on Grandma’s boat for the weekend whilst Nick and I had two nights away as a joint celebration for our wedding anniversary and his 40th [Read on...] The Portsmouth to St Malo crossing is around ten hours and arrives in port at 8am French time so you get more sleep and do less driving. It’s a win win situation. [Read on...] “Postcard from” is my occasional series of weekend non-recipe posts. Sian of Mummy Tips opens the conference I am a bit slow off the mark getting this post up about the Cybermummy day itself. I was going to include this material in my flapjack post but it was already very long hence it being posted [Read on...] Dinner with Crayons is my regular weekend kid friendly restaurant review. This week though is a rarity. We escaped during our recent holiday on Île de Ré. Today there are no sippy cups, no budgie’s cage mess on the floor and nooooo crayons! This week’s submission to Sticky Fingers‘ Gallery on the theme of “Creatures“ [Read on...] 
Today’s Dinner with Crayons kid friendly restaurant/cafe review continues my mini-series of cafes within reach of the 2012 London Olympics site. We are visiting The Counter Cafe in Hackney Wick, run by the same team behind The Container Cafe. The Counter Cafe is, as you can see above, quite literally in the shadow of [Read on...] “Postcard from” is my occasional series of non-recipe weekend posts. Today’s postcard comes from the View Tube, a social enterprise and community project overlooking the London 2012 Olympic site. A slightly delayed weekend postcard… I am juggling making a birthday cake, redesigning this blog and building up some posts to publish during my imminent holiday. [Read on...] “Postcard from” is my occasional series of weekend non-recipe posts. Martha Stewart has nearly 2,000,000 Twitter followers but only follows around 8,000 users herself. Today she started following me. If she reads this blog post, she’ll probably go the way of Bob Bob Ricard and Lahloo tea and dump me pretty sharpish. Food does [Read on...] |
 
 
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