Recipes, Craft & Adventure Stories
"Mum, do you know what I really, really want?" our youngest son (aged 8 and 1/4) asked recently. "What's that?" I enquired. "Squirty cream, so I can squirt it right into my mouth!" he laughed. "Um..... ok?!" I chuckled, "I'll see what I can do." So when I next went to the village shop and spied a giant punnet of Scottish strawberries on offer, I remembered my son's desire for squirty cream and took the notion of making some strawberry ...
A barbecue recipe in collaboration with Simply Beef & Lamb. Last Autumn my husband took the notion that he'd like to go trout fishing next summer. So, for Christmas, I bought him a starter loch trout rod kit from our local fishing tackle shop. Come March I bought him a fishing license so ...
Post sponsored by Volkswagen. I have fallen in love with the art of decorating sugar cookies! It is remarkably easy to mix ready made Royal icing powder with water and a little bit of food colouring to decorate the tops of your favourite sugar cookie recipe, and, I have learned recently, the ...
In collaboration with Harveys Furniture. Are you a hoarder of little bits of string, ribbon and buttons? I am. I've teamed up with Harveys Furniture to bring you my quick and easy storage solution - a custom sized small storage box to store crafting bits and bobs on my craft desk. The whole project can be completed in less than half an hour. You could even use these as gift boxes ...
A visit to some of Paris' 100 award-winning bistros. I have visited Paris twice in my life (so far). The first time was 18 months ago when, en route to London for a food blogging conference, I took a little detour to the city of lights. I rented a tiny studio apartment for five days and ...
A 5.5-day walk along England's 13th National Trail. Hadrian's Wall is the largest ancient Roman artefact in the world. Running for 80 Roman miles (75 modern miles) from Wallsend in Newcastle upon Tyne on the east coast of England to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast it marked the northern edge ...
The Scottish city of Aberdeen, to me, has always been a place you pass through en route to more interesting holiday destinations, or the place you reach and heave a sigh a relief after you've been away adventuring because you are nearly home. You start recognising Shetland faces in the crowd as you ...
