the Nest
Well, hello, hello. Of course it had to be a chocolate cake to entice me back blogging. This cake will look very familiar to many of you, I expect: remember The Best Brownie recipe from years ago? I felt the time was right to drag it out of obscurity, dust …
Firstly, thank you for the enormous interest: it really helped give me the final push over the line when I was flagging! We have now entered the pre-production phase, where I enlist my wonderful, talented sister, Blaithin, in Dataprint to translate these paintings and illustrations into graphics and from there, …
While indeed it was always called Spotted Dog in some parts, Spotted Dick has been downgraded to its considerably more flaccid counterpart …
It’s that time of year again, Crumble Season. Whilst a fruit crumble is welcome any time of the year, once the blackberries …
(I mentioned this briefly here, but was asked for more photos; so being the obliging human I am, here you go!) A …
For many years now, thoughts of escaping to the Guesthouse in Glenstal Abbey have crept into my mind, like a wispy filament …
Last year (Or was it? maybe the year before) as I was approaching my fortieth year, there was a lot of change …
The other night, a most bizarre thing happened: I had a yen for dates (of the edible kind, but y’know, being the …
January disappeared on me, and then, guess what? So did February. I’m now facing into March feeling a bit like Rip Van …
About three weeks before Christmas last year (just before the annual epic sugar binge), I gave up sugar. I had been thinking …
