As summer has so rudely departed – after taking up a vast amount of our time and causing endless worries about heat stroke and lack of rain, she goes off, leaving us with a tumultuous rainy season to contend with. This year Read More
I helped out at a country house that was hosting a national daliah festival at the weekend. I am pretty used to arriving for duty and finding something utterly remarkable was taking place just in the main courtyard or in the famous Read More
Having discovered that winter has really gone, spring sprang in and out again quickly, and now summer has definitely come and we are already being bombarded with suggestions for the Christmas festivities. Even more annoying was seeing a delivery made to a Read More
We’re thrilled about that summer has arrived – in fact, we are a little bored of summer now. It’s been blisteringly hot for over two weeks and there appears to be no let up. How we wish for those thunder storms and Read More
I have begun using one of those new fangled food delivery services – a young lass came to the door, very cheerful and confident – she more or less bulldozed her way in to my kitchen and wouldn’t take my lame excuses Read More
When you book into any kind of lesson, there has to be some level of expectation on the part of the buying student and the tutor – it’s no good them coming to a cookery course for example, assuming that the student Read More
When the winter finally leaves us and we start to seriously contemplate basking in the sunlight to come, does our mind turn to the pleasures of the flesh – steady on, not that kind. I’m thinking of the flesh of tomatoes and Read More
I love going round kitchen and cookery workshop suppliers – there used to be a truly fantastic emporuium in my local town. It was filled from floor to ceiling with rack after rack of the most divine culinary objects – many of Read More
I had the chance to enrol with chums at a chocolate making workshop the other summer. It was actually part of a a whole host of hen party activities and we all had to select from a choice of 8 things, which Read More
I had the opportunity to join a pal on a rather high end shopping trip recently. This was a reward voucher she’d had for some spectacular achievement at work. I know not what the value of the gift was, but it involved Read More