Blueberry and banana cake
As lock down went on we were very happy to be able to get regular home deliveries – mostly from Sainsburys. This was a little tricky to start with – sometimes logging on past midnight to secure a slot as they became available! Luckily things have calmed down a bit and it’s normally pretty easy…
Spicy pear chutney
We have a glut of pears at the moment – a result I think of this fantastic spring and summer! Sadly the pears have rarely been very tasty over successive years so I always have to find something else to do with them rather than just eating as a fruit. A couple of years back…
Throwback Thursday: Orford Ness lighthouse
I was really sad to see in the news yesterday that the lighthouse at Orford Ness in Suffolk has had to be demolished because of coastal erosion. You can’t beat the sight of a lighthouse towering up out of the landscape – especially the red and white striped ones which are so iconic and photogenic.…
Norfolk Show revisited
NORFOLK SHOW REVISITED 29th JULY 2020 NORFOLK SHOW REVISITED 29th JULY 2020 So today would have been the second day of the Norfolk Show – our county’s oldest and most wonderful show case. I have memories of the Norfolk Show going back to childhood, when we would all get days off school so that we…
Lock down food
LOCK DOWN FOOD So how has lock down been for you? Or maybe you are still there – reluctant to venture out and face this rather uncertain new world. I know that I am. Like many people at the start of lock down, I was filled with lots of ideas of what to do with…
The Prague diaries – Day 1
THE PRAGUE DIARIES – DAY 1 THE PRAGUE DIARIES – DAY 1 RECAP: MAY 2019 At Christmas there was a ridiculously large and mysterious box under the tree from our children Tom and Reya (well they are 19 and 24!). It was one of those Russian doll presents – boxes within boxes until finally there…
The corona diaries – National Poetry Day
Corona virus Ordinary life on hold Fish swim in Venice These are very strange and worrying days indeed. In the course of a week our lives have changed dramatically to ones of fear, self-isolation, panic and fights in the supermarket over toilet rolls. It is like something out of an apocalyptic disaster film. Yet here…
Painting course!
At the weekend, in the nick of time before the Covid-19 shutdown, I went on a two day course – Painting with acrylics – a fab present for my big birthday last December. The course was run by the highly talented Nicola Slattery in her beautiful studio in South Norfolk. I dabbled a tiny bit…
REPOST: 25 years in the quest for the perfect pizza
I get lots of requests on social media for some of my recipes so i’m republishing this article which was originally published in True Loaf magazine 10 years ago! If your do the maths then we have been making pizzas on a Saturday night for 25 years! For the last 15 years or so Saturday…
New pixel palettes
So last week I was going to Blog every day and here we are a week later and there have been not more posts! I really do like making a rod for my own back! However I’m pleased to say that my healthy Autumn campaign is going well! I’m still on track with Sober September…
New start September!
So a shiny new month and once again new intentions for me as I again try and crack this menopausal weight gain and get back on track with getting more cardio exercise, healthy eating and kicking the old vino callapso. Way back in 2013 when I first did Dry January I found it really helped…
That was July!
That was july A bit of a roller coaster month which began with a trip to Addenbrookes for Geoff to finally embark upon his treatment – we now have a radio active man in the house! It has been a tough month for him with some very unpleasant and unexpected side effects but hopefully as…
A long weekend in Prague
A LONG WEEKEND IN PRAGUE A LONG WEEKEND IN PRAGUE At Christmas there was a great big box under the tree from our children Tom and Reya (well they are 19 and 24!). It was one of those Russian doll presents – boxes with in boxes until finally there was just an envelope. Inside the…
Blustery morning walk
I have got out of the habit recently of going for my morning walk and I woke up this morning realising just how much I had missed it! I don’t mind admitting that I was in a bit of a grump yesterday – it has not been an easy week and I was generally feeling…
That was January 2019
Well I blinked and that was the first month of 2019 done and dusted! It was a strange month in many ways as it was our first proper taste of having an empty nest. Our son Tom moved to Bristol at the end of November last year but it wasn’t long before our daughter Reya…