Tiny new people

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...

Farmers’ Markets

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...

Real Bread

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...

Autumn is here, time for Soup.

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...