Postcard from… is my series of Saturday mini-posts. Today’s postcard is from a bird hide in Tottenham Marshes, part of the Lee Valley Park which borders the 2012 London Olympics site. Selfridges food hall, the Designer’s Guild Warehouse Sale, St Tropez; there are many places I’d rather be than sat in a bird hide [Read on...]
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Writing about restaurants is not something I really do, mainly because with a two year old, I rarely venture anywhere more imaginative than various branches of Gourmet Burger Kitchen and Pizza Express with their child friendly packs of crayons and high chairs. The envelope was being pushed last Sunday with a trip to the [Read on...] Unless you count the time I pretended to be busy with a fax machine behind Jeremy Kyle in his Central News reporting days, I’ve never been on TV. Coming soon however, on a download device near you, will be dozens of food bloggers, including myself, confessing their darkest culinary horrors on film. We’re talking [Read on...] This is pathetically short and ill-composed post considering how excited I am about this. So much has happened in the last couple of weeks whilst I had no broadband that I’m suffering a bit of a blog-kage and back(b)log. I must however share details of the very exciting Food Blogger Connect event which is taking [Read on...] We eventually found Primrose Bakery further down Gloucester Avenue back towards Camden. They have two shops, the one here and one in Covent Garden. I assume from the name that the Primrose Hill shop was the first. Their shop is a modestly sized cafe in shabby chic style with primrose yellow formica tables. Cupcakes were [Read on...] Today, despite all the weekend tube and rail closures, I have made an expedition to Primrose Hill to check out the cupcakes at Primrose Bakery. After a pleasant walk past London Zoo along the canal (from where we saw vultures in the Snowdon Aviary) we climbed Primrose Hill itself and made our way to [Read on...] Today is the day when things finally came together. Although I had been up early helping make sure cars were removed from the street, moving my table onto the pavement and collecting a bulk order of sausages from the local butcher, it was not until 11.30 that it was time to put out my [Read on...] Things are hotting up today. Having scattered various trays of cupcakes around the kitchen it is becoming obvious that I need a stand to put them on otherwise I will take over the table at tomorrow’s Big Lunch. I do not as yet own a cake stand so I decide to make one. My own [Read on...] |
 
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