Organic doggy treat lovers

This was sent from our dear friends, Chris and Renée who own their own dog organic biscuit company - click here for further information on Barkwheats.
Hello Barkwheats Aficionados!
This weekend on Maine’s NBC affiliates WLBZ-2 and WCSH-6, they will be airing a special on Barkwheats during their Weekend 207 Report. It will air on Saturday, […]

Comfort food

This weekend K took off to Denver to practice with The Band and to surprise his dad at a birthday celebration breakfast. In his absence Jay and I enjoyed a weekend of comfort eating. I had warned Jay that still not feeling up to chasing a 4 year old around the place and going to […]

Burn’s Night

A day late but a whisky toast to you! As with some of my most cherished memories, one of the best Burn’s night suppers I experienced was in Rome. We started off in one flat for drinks and nibbles, adjourned to another flat for our tatties, neaps and haggis and then moved onto to another […]

My purpose, is indeed, a horse of that colour

Twelfth Night Act 2 sc 3.
Having been particularly anti-social for much of the year, I’d like to say simply the festive season but it just isn’t true. Our anti-socialness pervavded 2007 in its entirety, we, well, I decided to have a Twelfth night party. Sort of. We forwent the costumes and the games and the […]

Happy Halloween

A bit late but…Happy Halloween! Once again impressing even myself with the culinary skills, (wholewheat cookies and pumpkin fairy cakes with orange buttercream icing). Jay spent the day as a ghost at school and then decided he’d had enough of that and wanted to be something else for trick or treating. With my usual last […]

Hey good-looking, what you got cooking?

Just occasionally I impress even me with my cooking capabilities - mainly when it comes to the baking genre, of which I am particularly bad. Don’t really understand it as my Great-grandmother was a professional cook, my grandmother is a fabulous cook and makes amazing puddings and my mum is just a genius in the […]

Soda & Bones

It seems that my avoidance of soda and fizzy frinks, (save for champagne and mineral water of course), is to be founded on even more substantial reasoning. An article in the Times Online today claims that recent research suggests that cola makes women’s skeletons more brittle. Here’s an excerpt, (bold face mine)…
“Few people perceive cola […]

S’mores - the organic way

I was introduced to s’mores during my very first trip to the United States, ten years ago. It was while I was camping (if staying in an RV can really be considered camping), with Keith’s family at the beautiful Mesa Verde and Wendy and Al made me my first s’more over the campfire, with the […]