I’ve been thinking a lot about balance recently and how to achieve it. What is it with these golden states that everyone is trying to possess? I guess it’s part of this modern lifestyle that we want to have it all and do it all, and sometimes we don’t even know what the ‘all’ is. […]

How often do you take the time out to notice the beauty in something that others might just see as ordinary? Can you put on a set of eyes that sees a glimmer of magic in the everyday? What might you walk past today that can bring you a moment of joy? Today I marveled […]

Don’t you just love being toasty? Toasty toes, toasty…. toast. I don’t know, there’s just something I love about toasty. And in my books there is one thing that I enjoy way more when it is toasty – muesli. You can eat it in your pyjamas at any time of day with a hot cup […]

Do you need a super quick dinner, like now?! And have a fridge full of, quite frankly, not much? I know that there are many nights when everyone is short on time and sometimes short on inspiration too, and making a good dinner at the end of a long day can sometimes just feel too […]

There’s something about a really good piece of banana bread that is so very, very right; it just feels so homely on a chilly day. Now that the weather is about to turn cooler it feels like the right time to share my favourite banana bread recipe, perfect for morning or afternoon tea, or to […]

It is truly and wonderfully Autumn, and I have been imagining the weather almost as if it were human. This week has been golden and feels like a gracious apology for all those times when it is too hot and feels like you are living in an oven, or too cold and windy with sharp […]

Recently, I started university. And then I stopped. Whoops, sorry everyone! You know how I told you I was studying this year? Well, I changed my mind! I just thought I should update you, incase you blinked and missed it. What happened?! Well, things happened, real life happened, and I got to re-evaluate my life […]

The other morning my daughter announced, in that gorgeous way that kids do, that if ever there was ricotta in the house, she wanted to eat it. “Don’t even ask me mum, if there is ricotta, I always want that”. Cool, no arguments from me. I completely agree because ricotta really is excellent. Savoury? Tick. […]

Waffles are one of my go to, quick stand-by, emergency afternoon teas. They’re really easy to make so the kids can whip them up, they take about 5 minutes flat and we always seem to have all the ingredients hanging around. Plus it makes what would otherwise just be a normal afternoon feel a little […]

It’s fete baking time at our house and we are baking up a storm to supply our lovely little primary school with goodies. The kids have been helping out and after visiting the local continental greengrocer, we are baking ‘a la mode’. I really like doing the grocery shopping with little kids; sure, you might […]