Today is Good Friday, and although I am not the slightest bit religious I do like to take the opportunity to incorporate food traditions into my life at any opportunity, so that means Hot Cross Buns today. But there’s another reason for me wanting to make the fruity little buns, and that is because I […]
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Week 10 – and the kitchen nightmare is over
Finally our kitchen is finished. Starting on 16 November, I was starting to think the building work would never be over. Originally we’d planned to complete everything by mid-December, so that was completely unrealistically optimistic, but I still didn’t expect it to take this long. But not only are we finished, but we’re delighted with […]
Week 2 – come on kitchen … please be finished
Oh this bloody kitchen … it goes on, and on, and on. This week we not only had to contend with staying out of the kitchen while the floor was levelled, but our drain decided to pack up. After a bit of DIY drain-cleaning, the builder noticed that paper seemed to be making an appearance […]
An ‘It’s Not Easy Being Greedy’ 2015 year in review
Happy New Year! 2015 for us has been a good year personally, professionally, and for the blog, and I have high hopes and expectations for our adventures in 2016. Before writing this post I decided to take a look back at my 2015 blogging resolutions, and like all good new year’s resolutions I have managed […]