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A short month, but long enough for me to get quite overdrawn, due to Christmas shopping and car tax/service/insurance. Started going to swim...

My friend's husband visited at the weekend, and, as it was the first weekend of Advent, it provided me with an excuse to bake the first ...

I apologise for the lack of book-related posts recently; I feel a lot more motivated in the craft-cooking direction at the moment, particula...

I've made a number of Christmas tree cross stitch Christmas cards - this design is surprisingly simple and can be completed in a couple ...

As the title suggests, no pretty pictures of cake this week. I apologise. I've had a couple of bakings to post about but no accompanyi...

The gowk storm was another of the Canongate Classics that I was sent to have a look at (to recap - Canongate have made available quite a l...

This year, partly for reasons of economy, and partly because I've really got into doing crafty things over the last six months, I decide...

I had such an overwhelming response on my post last week about Christmas books, prompted by the addition of a beautiful copy of Dicken's...

Regular readers will know that cupcakes are not something I'm usually interested in baking - give me the simpler, more homely fairy cake...

K and I had an outing to Thame on Saturday. It was principally to have a nice afternoon out and to go to a cookshop to try to replace my pi...