I don’t know about you but I love a decorative tin  and at Christmas especially, the proliferation of delicious Panettone offerings provide a multitude of beautiful tins as well. And every.single.year I buy one for the dual purpose of enjoying a slice of the best sweet breads in the whole world, while eying up the […]

This is what my young son and I saw last night on our evening walk to reach our family cabin. I was busy just admiring the beautiful hue of faded watery blue of the sky and stars against the white puffy clouds and imagining an adventure worthy of Aladdin and he piped up, “Mummy, look […]

There’s been a Street Food Festival at Portmeirion in North Wales this week but sadly we weren’t able to make it. However it gave me the idea to share some photos I took of Portmeirion last year instead. Here we are swimming and enjoying the water and of course the beautiful village. I’ll post pictures […]

I’ve nicked this image from Pinterest so my sincere apologies to the person whose picture and quote it is; I have tried unsuccessfully to find the owner so I can pay to use the image, so if you are reading this now thinking ‘that’s my image, how cheeky!’ please let me know and I’ll sort […]

Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham Lancashire is a small but mighty fine Elizabethan mansion to visit for a few hours or half a day. I personally have an exciting, historical and sentimental reason for wanting to visit there as regularly as I used to, as well as just wanting to enjoy looking at some beautiful history. […]

Merry Christmas 2020 Everyone!  Despite the restrictions, we are deeply thankful for our blessings and have had a truly joyful day. For part of our Christmas meal this year our son cooked a Marmalade & Pepper Glazed British Gammon joint and yes, it was exceptionally good! Well done son!  He was going to cook Nigella’s […]

I don’t know if you can work out what’s going on in this photo but as I stayed in from church this morning due to feeling exhausted, I decided to dry out some logs on the AGA to use in the cabin log burner for another day.  I was so thankful to be able to […]

Hello everyone, please accept my apologies for there being no blog post today. I am at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s amazing River Cottage Cookery School this week and have been so busy having a fantastic time, that I have run out of time to write. Instead I will be posting sometime tomorrow instead and the speed with […]

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I’m overjoyed with how well these have printed. I have named them my Floral Leaf design and these are my colour options Aqua, Red/Blue and Petal Pink. I have a few more colour options but I’ll blog about those later.  I’ve been using a company called Photo Canvas for my tea towel trial runs and […]

I’ve had a really good day today. Not least because the weather has been glorious and I was able to get out for a relaxing walk in some absolutely stunning countryside. I’ve eaten a lot of very delicious food today too, which was fun…. but I’m conscious not to go crazy after my slow but […]

Hi everyone, I am so sorry not to have a blog post fro you today. I am having trouble with my computer, so it’s going in for a service. I do have some really fun things to tell you about though, so please come back and by next week I should be sorted (hopefully)!

If you aren’t already acquainted with Skye McAlpine’s stunning new range of tableware, please let me introduce you. Last year, Skye brought out a few different designs of dinnerware under the Italian name Tavola and this beautiful range with the strawberries, blueberries and raspberries embossed around the edges of the dish is my favourite and […]

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