Ted and I have spent a lot of time in the kitchen during half term – albeit at the expense of a hideously overflowing in-box that’s going to have to wait until next week. Baking with children I must admit I am enjoying that he’s getting to the age where he can sort of [Read on...]
How often do you bake? For me it varies. You may find it hard to believe from the frequency I’ve blogged lately but I sometimes go nearly a fortnight without baking anything. Then I’ll have a mad burst and bake 3 or 4 things over the space of 1 or 2 days. These muffins [Read on...]
Virtuousness has been a rarity for me recently, although here I’ve discovered a recipe to coax my inner good girl back out. This comes after making cupcakes for a family party celebrating my grandfather’s 30th wedding anniversary. My step grandmother, Anne, is diabetic so I looked for a low sugar alternative to the cupcakes. [Read on...]
Time has been running away with me these last couple of weeks so you may have noticed activity has stepped down a notch on here. Ted developed an obsession with the computer, in particular, the marvelous CBeebies website, meaning I’ve been keeping it switched off when he’s awake. Outside of the house I’ve been [Read on...]
Apparently some of you enjoy it when I share my failures here. Normally these are culinary disasters involving macarons and lurid pink icing for caterpillar cakes but today I thought I’d give you a laugh at my first tragic attempt to send a valentines card back in 1989. More dog’s breakfast than valentines breakfast. [Read on...]
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