It's apple season. I know this because there are adverts for the Brogdale Apple Festival across the Kent countryside. If you haven't been, do go. It really is an experience. But apple season means cooler weather, which requires a sweater and warming food. Comfort food. Like baked apples with a crumble-style filling. No, they are not high fashion but golly they are delicious. And so easy that your children can make them. All you … [Read more...]
{Recipe} Triple Chocolate Caramel Shortbread
All this Great British Bake Off talk has been adding inches to my waistline. I keep feeling the urge to bake. Most of my offerings get burned to a cinder in the Aga or snaffled so quickly that I have few pictures to show for my work. But this is too good not to share. You take a basic Chocolate Caramel Shortbread- these days referred to as Millionaires' Shortbread- and whack up the chocolate. Chocolate shortbread base, salted caramel … [Read more...]
A good night’s sleep starts with a good duvet
I've written before about how my bed would be my Desert Island luxury: there is nothing that cannot be fixed by a couple of hours sandwiched between sheet and duvet, particularly when life gives you the mother of all headaches. A hotel is always more welcoming if the bed is good, even camping can be improved with the right duvet and pillow, though it makes packing the car more challenging. The thing is, having just moved house, we are at sixes … [Read more...]
Day of the Dead spoon craft
When Red Ted Art challenged me to make a Day of the Dead craft I had no idea where to start. I knew nothing about Day of the Dead. But I did some research and checked out the Dia de los Muertos crafts on Pinterest and it gave me an idea to make super easy 'shrunken heads' from plastic spoons. I say shrunken heads because I made them with disposable teaspoons, but you could make larger ones using dessert spoons. All you need is a few disposable … [Read more...]
Benihana Chelsea: fun for all the family
I first went to Benihana on my first date with the man I now call DH. We in fact met at Benihana Piccadilly for the first time after speaking online for a couple of weeks. It was an experience I will never forget. I introduced my mother to my intended in Benihana Chelsea on the King's Road. I hadn't thought about taking my children to Benihana's until last week when the Tour de Force that is London Baby put together a fabulous event at the very … [Read more...]
Up all night to get Lucky Voice
The last time I went to Lucky Voice, it was a friend's 40th. We spent the night singing the hits of the eighties and drinking shots with Cola Bottles in them. I woke up with a sore head and a sore throat the next morning. It was awesome. On Sunday morning, my sore head was the result of getting up too early and trying to read instructions to our Lucky Voice Karaoke Kit without my glasses on. Once I'd located them I realised that … [Read more...]
Make the Eiffel Tower from a cardboard box
It was French Day on Friday for LBG. I had two days' notice to whip up a costume from stuff lying around the house. A pair of navy leggings, a stripey blue and white top- with red rosette, and her velvet jacket and some of my fake pearls was the simplest way of fulfilling the brief. But I had a delivery that day which came in a large cardboard box. And the large cardboard box spoke to me. It said: I want to be the Eiffel Tower. So armed with … [Read more...]
