by Kirstie Young | Nov 22, 2012 | Uncategorized
There is nothing as extraordinary as the arrival of a new tiny person into a family. It’s life changing, exhausting, funny and frightening. It put everything into a strange, slightly surreal perspective. It consumes your day and steals your night. But when...
by Kirstie Young | Nov 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
Farmers’ markets. Never the cheapest, or the warmest way of shopping. But there is something undeniably satisfying about buying a handcrafted pie, or a wedge of cheese from the actual human who was responsible for making it. These kitchen top entrepreneurs...
by Kirstie Young | Nov 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
I love fresh bread, I think of myself as the sort of person who knocks up a fresh loaf every week, fitting it effortlessly into my Sunday morning routine while thumbing through the papers (*hollow laugh*, my Sunday morning routine generally involves playing dragons...
by Kirstie Young | Nov 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
I set my alarm clock for 5.30 this morning – not something I do lightly as I have a toddler who wakes up at 6am every day. I did it so that I could go along to a breakfast meeting with some like minded people who run their own companies. Instead of feeling...
by Kirstie Young | Nov 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
A beautiful, sunny Autumn day, and with the leaves still showing their multicoloured glory we decided to take a trip to a National Trust estate – Tyntesfield in Wraxall. In the grounds of the estate is one of the smallest building in the National Trust’s...
by Kirstie Young | Nov 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
I don’t know if it’s because I was a November baby, but I am never happier than when the leaves start to fall and the temperature starts to plummet. There is nothing more comforting in the entire world than a crisp, cold day when the sun is low in the sky...