As every pet owner knows, saying goodbye to your beloved furry friends is hard. At the end of February, only a couple of months after Alfie’s death, our cat Betty was put down by the vet after a sudden turn downhill. As has been the tradition with Henry and then Alfie, I wanted to write […]
Uncategorized
Farewell to Alfie the cat
Alfie the cat, my beautiful white furred baby, died just before Christmas. He was nearly nineteen and had been ill for some time, but took a sudden turn downhill and we had to call the vet to put him down. I wasn’t going to write a blog post about it, but then I re-read the […]
What’s for dinner this week?
So, I am still continuing with my mission to be more organised in the kitchen, and this weekend Andrew took Ioan out for a couple of hours so that I could get on with some baking (I’d also hoped to sneakily catch up on some trashy telly but didn’t have time). For today’s meat free […]
An International Women’s day shout out to my mum
Not only did my mum bring me up to be the person you see before you (single-handedly after my dad died when I was eight years old), but she retired from work to look after Ioan twice a week so that I could return to my job. That means she wakes up at 5am every […]
November No Waste food challenge
Generally I don’t waste food. I plan my menus in advance so I can buy just the food I need (apart from the odd treat or three), and pack leftovers for lunch the next day. Additionally, my greed is so great that rarely does spare food get left around before I gobble it up. I […]
Happy Canada Day with Nanaima bars
Today is Canada Day! It celebrates the 1867 anniversary of when three colonies united to become Canada under the British Empire, and that’s basically all I know about it. I would not even have known that, had Steph the Canadian not introduced me to Nanaimo bars to celebrate said Canada Day. And what on earth […]
The new and improved It’s not easy being greedy
I’ve been writing on my blog since October 2012 and when I first started, I didn’t know if I’d actually keep it going for more than one month. Actually, I really enjoyed writing my weekly posts, and started to feel like a real blogger after notching up 500 followers at the start of the year. […]
Happy birthday dear blog
Wow – thanks to a notification from wordpress I just discovered that this blog is a year old! My first blog post was on 27 October 2012, and here we are, one year and 76 posts later (this one will be number 77). If I am honest, I didn’t believe I’d still be posting blog […]
Cooking up a Storm book review
One of the only good things about my long tube commute is the chance i have to read books – on the odd occasion I actually manage to get a seat on the tube, I like to switch on my kindle and escape into another world for 30 minutes, until I realise I am just […]
Boldly going … where millions of food bloggers have been before
When I originally started this blog in October 2012 (nearly half a year ago, how time flies eh?), the idea was to firstly see whether I had actually managed to maintain it by Christmas, and secondly read back through it to decide whether it was suitable to launch on an unsuspecting public, or more akin […]