Although I’ve been on Facebook for years, I’ve never been on Facebook. I’ve used it as a blog platform, and I’ve occasionally signed in only to find messages from old friends withering away in corners like unloved pot plants. I always assume people I know will contact me in other ways, and believed, and hoped, Facebook …
I never thought I would start baking a batch of brownies by doing this: The thing on the scale, in case you are wondering, is a massive sweet potato. Yep, that’s right. NOT exactly the normal starting ingredient for my delicious, oozy, chocolately brownies, and definitely not the way I thought I’d be kicking off …
I think it’s really important to keep trying to move forward. I want to get a lot of projects sorted out which will move me smoothly into the future, and out of a present where I keep nervously checking bits of my body for sinister developments. My first idea was to get on with an …
I’m very thrilled to have been inspired by Stork to bake a cake for World Baking Day on 17th May. As you know, it doesn’t take much encouragement to get me donning my pinny, but this time, the incentive really is brilliant. We are all – all over the globe – going to bake ourselves …
Now nobody snigger …. but I spent a day this week at a decluttering seminar. Anyone who knows me will appreciate the irony. I cannot bear piles of stuff around me and much prefer throwing things away to almost any other activity, except eating cake. So why the seminar? Well, I went with a friend …