When I was a young girl, my brother and I used to be collected from school every Thursday by our grandparents, and we were allowed to visit a local bakery to choose a cake for an after school treat. My brother always had a chocolate covered sponge rectangle shaped cake which was topped with a … [Read more…]
So I have spent the last few days, in between my real life and online life tasks, playing a new game on my iPhone. It has become a little addictive and right now as I write this post, I am waiting for my lives to be awarded back to me, so I can get the … [Read more…]
With a little more than 2 weeks to go until we all find out if we have made it on to the ‘naughty’ or ‘nice’ lists, it is a good time to bake some Christmas inspired cakes.
I love millionnaires shortbread – it is one of those almost illicit cakes that I dare not eat, because of how naughty and of course calorific it is. It is on a par with rocky road I think, in how much I love eating it. It just makes me go mmmmmm and ooooooh as I … [Read more…]
I attend a baby and toddler playgroup two mornings a week. In fact I help run it and have been doing so since January, and despite a busy and then very slow beginning, we are now quite busy and have many regulars who come along and join in with our crafts and playing time.