Pastry week was the first week when I didn’t get to watch Bake Off on Wednesday night. I was busy every single night last week after work, and straight into the weekend. I can’t complain, though busy, it’s been really good fun, but it did mean I caught up with pastry in snippets. In fact, […]
Timothy Pricklepin
Today’s post is just some light relief. To get you through the week. Nurse your tired and weary eyes through hump day. To come back to when you’re feeling sad and low. You get the idea. This…is Timothy Pricklepin! Nicknames include Timmy, Timmy Boy, Pig, Hog, Hedgepig, My Boy, Tim Scrim…the list goes on. […]
Bake Off Bake Along 2016 – Batter Week
Let’s get BATTERED! Quote of the week right there from Candice! I was excited to see this week come up, especially as batter is a Bake Off first! Whilst everyone else looked rather tentative at the idea, I have always enjoyed whizzing up pancakes and my common problem I’ve had with Yorkshires is that they rise […]
Canonteign Falls
An afternoon amongst the trees. Deliciously sweet ice cream to spur us on. Steep hills dappled in sunlight. Climbing and climbing, 90 Victorian steps rising higher. Ferns and moss carpeting the damp ground. Barely a single person on the path. Laughing our way to the top. What a view. A buzzards view to behold. Canonteign […]
How to make the perfect cocktail || Watermelon Cooler
The weather this week has been seriously strange. Huge floods in Cornwall at the start of the week, and then brilliant sunshine mid week. It’s been particularly warm, and we had also somehow managed to grab so many bargains from the supermarket on Monday night – including a huge watermelon wedge! I thought it would […]
The Bake Off Bake Along 2016 – Bread Week
Week three last year was a busy one, and I ended up baking a soda bread one evening at home. This year is slightly different, in the fact that I’m actually off work this week. Saving as much holiday as possible for when we could move into the new house meant we haven’t actually had […]
The Bake Off Bake Along 2016 – Biscuit Week
Week two brought biscuit week – lots and lots of biscuits! I was surprised that Louise ended up leaving *oops spoiler* because poor old Val had a shocker, but I’m pleased she’s in for another week. Bless her! Mum was squealing at the tension of the falling gingerbread, such biscuit stress! Can we just say […]
Lovely Things || August
August has been a weird one. There have been some really utterly crap times, as you probably guessed from this post, but also some really exciting and wonderful things too. What a summer rollercoaster ehh?! Whilst I had a few weeks where every seemed to fall apart one after another, going through this list picking […]
The Bake Off Bake Along 2016 – Cake Week
HELLO and welcome to first first in the new series of the Bake Off Bake Along. As a week one tradition, this weeks bake was CAKE! I for one am really excited that Bake Off is bake on our screens! It’s one of the only programs I’ll watch religiously and joining in the bake off […]
Outdoor Living Wishlist
As you may have seen, we recently finished renovating our garden! We spent hours and hours and every weekend we had spare completely transforming it into an outdoor living space we’re so proud of. However, now that we’re done and moving on to a bigger and better space, we’re going to have to start again! […]