Before I sign off for the remainder of the festive season, I just wanted to wish everyone out there celebrating Christmas a very Merry Christmas and to the rest of my readers, Happy Holidays to you! I hope you and your loved ones all have a wonderful time over the coming days. Here’s another little […]
With just over a week to go, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas! Here in Australia, I always associate Christmas with cherries. This might sound a little strange to all our friends in the Northern Hemisphere, but December is the time of year when cherry season comes into full swing here. While the […]
When I was living in the UK, I joined a book club with a great bunch of people who quickly became good friends. We’d pick a book. Meet every six weeks or so. Talk about the book. Our likes and dislikes. And when we were finished, we’d rate the book out of five. The evenings […]
It’s been a good few months now since I packed up home in London and returned to Sydney and I’m surprised to realise just how quickly I’d started to take the everyday things here for granted within such a relatively short period of time. Over the past two weeks I’ve had a chance to play […]
I’ve experimented with various chocolate cake recipes over the years, but it’s this boiled chocolate cake which I keep returning to time and again, thanks to its simplicity and the wonderfully moist cake the recipe produces each time without fail. It also holds a particularly special place in my heart, being the first cake I […]