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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...] 
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...] 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...] “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...] 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...] Long before Guggenheim-wannabe Selfridges upstaged The Rotunda on the Brum skyline, the Mailbox restaurant and shopping complex had pushed the second city more upmarket. For many years, knocking down the Bull Ring was little more than urban myth. As an adopted Londoner, Birmingham city centre was not on the itinerary for quick visits to [Read on...] “Postcard from” is my regular series of weekend non-recipe mini posts. Spring has sprung in London this week, I had the unfamiliar experience of saying, “Look Ted! The sky is blue.” My thoughts are turning to the summer holidays and how I am going to entertain the little person for six or seven weeks whilst [Read on...] “Postcard from” is my regular series of non recipe Saturday mini blog posts. “Really?” people tend to say when I tell them my mother lives on a narrow boat, “What? All the time? Isn’t it cold?” Yes, I reply. All the time for over ten years. And no it isn’t cold because she has central [Read on...] Today’s post is one of my regular series of Saturday non-recipe mini posts, “Postcard from…” Last week I shared pictures of the parade in Vannes, Brittany. Today I am in the mood for something a little “zen” so here are a couple of shots from the hotel garden where we stayed on the same holiday. [Read on...] Today’s post is one of my regular series of non-recipe mini posts, “Postcard from…” Since it will be Shrove Tuesday this week I thought it appropriate to show somewhere that I associate with crepes for this week’s “Postcard from”. I cannot bring you Mardi Gras in Nice but I can bring you a carnival in [Read on...] Today’s post is from my regular series of weekend non-recipe mini blog posts, “Postcard from…” Mont Ventoux is the highest point in Provence and quite possibly the highest place, bar a skiing trip to Meribel, that I have been. Situated 20km north east of Carpentras in the Vaucluse département, it was a little way off [Read on...] This weekend’s Saturday Postcard comes from Ghent in Belgium, one of the larger towns in the Flemish part of the country. On a weekend trip on the Eurostar we were visiting one of my former college friends who at the time was living in Waterloo, some 30 minutes south of Brussels. My first trip [Read on...] 
Provence is a place very dear to my heart, I first visited in 1997 and have been back almost every year since. I have been to Arles for Easter, where I saw Provencal ladies dressed in these beautiful costumes but family commitments have thus far prevented me visiting at Christmas. Were I to do [Read on...] Too sick to to cook this week, I am taking you a weekend mini break in my favourite town on earth, St-Rémy-de-Provence. As you might expect by the name, St Rémy is at the heart of Provence, southern France around 20km between Avignon and Arles. It has been home to Romans, Nostradamus, Van Gogh [Read on...] Anyone following me on Twitter will be sick to death of hearing this. I have had no broadband since I got back from our holiday in Montenegro earlier this week. I am therefore posting from my mobile which is a bit fiddly. Normal service should be resumed next week. In the meantime I share [Read on...] |
 
 
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