One Armed Bandit

Well, I’m not exactly a bandit, but (hopefully!) just for this weekend I am one armed! I pulled a muscle in my shoulder on Friday, so I’m trying to restrict it’s movement as much as possible. Isn’t it funny how much we rely on every part of our bodies, and yet until something goes wrong [...]

Catrin Finch

On Wednesday evening my husband and I had a rare night out together to go to a recital by Catrin Finch, fast becoming the most famous harpist of her generation. Actually, I couldn’t name that many harpists, so for all I know she could be already there! Although I’m biased (she went to the same [...]

Birthday time again!

I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned before, but my boys have their birthdays 17 days apart (very bad timing) and so this month has been my cake creating month! Firstly, my older son chose this pirate treasure chest cake.

He went through my Jane Asher book and decided that this was the perfect cake for him. [...]

Disturbing viewing…

On Sunday night I watched a programme on Channel 4 about two journalists trying to get down to a UK size 2. It was quite terrifying to watch the lengths to which they had to go to achieve this, and in fact one of the journalists was stopped a week before the end of the [...]