Anna Jones is a goddess. She turned me into a vegetarian in March this year and I’ve never looked back. So, having lived on the recipes from her first book ‘A Modern Way to Eat‘, I was sooooo excited for the July release of her second book ‘A Modern Way to Cook‘. The book breaks […]
Read MoreA couple of weekends back some girlfriends and I took our kids to Canfields, a Feather Down Farm in Horsham, West Sussex, for a weekend of ‘glamping’ (I dread this word, as I mentioned in my post 18 months or so ago about Mount Harry near Lewes, so as then I would rather here describe it as […]
Read MoreAnother recipe that you all no doubt know: homemade oven baked chips. They’re so easy it is almost criminal to write them up, but I’m going to anyway because while we were away this summer, I made them for a friend’s kids and she (and they) were marvelling over them. What I like about them […]
Read MoreYou won’t remember because you’re too busy expiring in today’s THIRTY-DEGREE heat, but exactly a month ago there was a terribly dull Sunday of wind and rain.
Read MorePoor little neglected blog. It happens every year – it’s the summer and there’s so much to say about all there is to do out in that glorious sunshine, but I’m three weeks from a three-week holiday and am overloaded on all fronts. Still, I have time enough to admit that I’m a twat. (I’ll […]
Read MoreI exaggerate not that during the Easter school holidays I baked this cake four times – three of those times was within one week, two of those times was at either end of one day. Each time it lasted less than 24 hours.
Read MorePraise be! We’ve just found our ideal beach scenario. I said in my post about the wonderful Front Room in Seaford that the beach front here can be a bit lack lustre given it’s immense size, brilliant promenade and cliff walk at one end.
Read MoreA few weeks back I published the first of reader Mugs Gohl’s three guest posts sharing recipes she likes to feed her children. Since then she’s started a new Instagram account, @theconstantcook and has been advising me on where to find the best pizza dough recipe and how to use up leftover pastry to make cheese straws. Clever thing. […]
Read MoreI said other voices would be coming through on the blog while I have a break from it, and indeed I wasn’t lying. So without further ado, here’s a most excellent and simple ‘Food for the Fam’ recipe by one of my loveliest readers, Mugs Gohl.
Read MoreAs I mentioned in my post about the Giles Leisure hot tub/swim spa (have you entered the comp yet?), my son broke a limb in November. We’ve spent a bit of time at the (fabulous) Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton, because it turns out bones heal slower in winter due to children absorbing less […]
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