This week’s small pleasures #315: the Christmas edition

I’m sitting here in the sun on Boxing Day having had a wonderful Christmas and days before with family visiting … More

What’s on my plate: a simple cake

Does one ever need an excuse to make and eat cake? I guess not, but my excuse this weekend was … More

I had this post all planned…an account of making lasagne, following this fantastic recipe from Nigella Eats Everything. However, I … More

As you may have seen in Saturday’s post, we are now a household in isolation thanks to Covid. So I … More

We are now in July, which happens to be my birthday month. When I was a child growing up in … More

This week seems to have flown past, and before we know it, July will be knocking on our doors offering … More

It’s Easter Monday, and time for a round up of some of this week’s small pleasures. We have had some … More

It is autumn here in the Southern Hemisphere, and a time to welcome apples, pears, passion fruit, quince, limes and … More

There were half a dozen ripe plums sitting in the fruit bowl on Saturday. I considered a crumble, but we … More

If we were having coffee…or even a cup of tea…we would talk about the weather, about all the sunshine we … More