Hello everybody! Sincere apologies for my absence!  I never intended to stop blogging, but life got busy and blogging fell by the wayside! Sadly I think I've succumbed to the "instant" "quick" "fast" "easy" platform of instagram. I can let "the world" know what I am up to in one photo and a sentence and I'm done...insert eyeball roll...LOL! (When did we develop the attention span of a Goldfish???) But seriously, blogging is a time consuming commitment, and a part of me wonders if it has 'had it's day' not unlike snail mail and postcards! I have noticed several other bloggers have dropped ..read more

Hi Everyone, Just a quick post today to tell you all about a great bread making series on YouTube that I have found.  It's a four part series, and I've only watched two, but it's enough to tell me that the tips and tricks she explains are very valuable indeed.  I've been baking bread with reasonable success for quite some time, and I'm learning new to me things! You have to sign up to watch the video's, all that's required is your email address, and the videos are released every few days (that's why I've only watched two, there has only been two released so far, otherwise I would have binged ..read more

 Hello everyone, Apologies for not being in this space very much, I'm just really busy around the home at the moment.  It seems early Autumn is a time of abundance, and there's so much to do to keep on top of it all! Here's the thing...I have concluded that being unwell last year is the best thing that's ever happened to me (although it certainly didn't feel great when I was going through it, and I still have bad days) But being forced to rest gave me time to think and evaluate, and without me really realizing it somewhere along the way I decided I'm really going to embrace this home made li ..read more