River Cottage

 Anyone who knows me would vouch that I am a ‘frustrated chef'.  Over the last few years my passion for cooking and playing around with ingredients, in order to come up with something Read More ›

  Like most mothers every morning I run the children up to school.  One day last month fuelled on only one coffee and not my usual two cups due to the extreme lack of milk in the house, I dragged Read More ›

Well after a long time away due to technical problems on my profile page, I am back!  Here we are half way through the summer already and I have been busying myself making pots and pots of Read More ›

 Well despite my last blog on ‘whispers of spring', with hopes of warm sunny weather cheering me on this weekend, as I dig up the vegetable patch... today was quite different! April Read More ›

  After what seems a very, very long winter indeed, I am delighted to hear at last the whispers of Spring in the air... Although Winter has its unchallenged pleasures, such as sitting in front of Read More ›

Well this Friday is when I shall be jetting off to sunny (you can only hope) Ireland! Although having an element of Irish blood running through my veins, I have never ventured there before.  I have Read More ›

We live in a small village in Kent. We have two neighbours to speak of, one being a pub and the other an elderly couple in the cottage over the way. Sally, the wife keeps horses and breeds them for Read More ›

A few years ago we became foster parents to a very unusual baby... One afternoon, while sitting in the kitchen, the children and I heard the most almighty scream outside.  Running to the window we Read More ›