by Hannah | Feb 20, 2018 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal
Summer was made for salads. Or is it that salads were made for summer? Our summer has been incredibly hot, tropical and steamy; far too hot for cooking. I seem to be able to bear the heat for cake making (like this one, summer fruit skillet cake) but not for...
by Hannah | Feb 13, 2018 | Food, From Hannah, Includes a recipe!
Nothing says summer like an abundance of apricots. You might be a nectarine fan or a lover of plums or mad-keen on those scarlet, seed freckled, early season strawberries, but apricots are the summer fruit for me. When I was a kid my Dad loved them best...
by Hannah | Feb 14, 2017 | From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Travel
Oh, the good advice we forget and forget and forget again. The things that cajole us out of a funk, that dust us off and yank us to our feet, that make life sweet again. Mum’s wisdom, your best friend’s sage counsel, the oldest of chestnuts. Sleep on it,...
by Hannah | Jan 18, 2017 | Books & Reading, Food, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal
And just like that…Christmas was gone. I don’t know about you but I’m still getting used to dating things ‘2017’. As keen as I was to see the back of 2016 it does seem a bit discombobulating that we are suddenly in a new...
by Ria Voros | Jul 6, 2016 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Seasonal
Oh, lavender. French gardens, milled soap, summer days, fresh-smelling wardrobes. Cake. No? Not a fan of soapy-tasting cake, as a friend of mine describes lavender in baked goods? Okay. Maybe just look at the photos and skip this next part. Ahem. For...
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