Recently I was tagged by Rachel from “Life of my family and me” to share 10 things I love and 10 things that I hate. I love things like this – it helps you find out about things you normally might not find out from blog posts. So here goes! 10 Read more…
If you didn’t know I am making my way through every single challenge on the Great British Bake Off. My first challenge was a Caramel Cake and was delicious – I recommend that you check it out now. This week I am taking on GBBO’s first ever technical challenge, though unlike Read more…
The Great British Bake off is over and I am missing the baking delights every week. Having baked along with the series I adored the direction and themes to work within each week. Now I am going to attempt every single Bake Off challenge in order. When I voiced an issue Read more…
It is another month; another photo challenge. This month’s theme was all about close ups and straight away I had photos piling up. I love close up style photography – most of my favourite photography over the years has been close ups. My first photo is embarrassingly me – I Read more…
I hate chocolate so the Chocolate week of Bake off wasn’t exactly delicious sounding. As I am taking part in Bake with Bake off by the Silver Mushroom, I had to put forward a chocolate recipe so you can imagine my trouble when I don’t like the stuff and that Read more…
A few weeks ago I got some really bad family news – someone in my family had passed away suddenly in the night. I often turn to photography when faced with bad news so I took my camera and met up with someone in a local park as she was walking two Read more…
Another week so another bake. This weekly challenge of baking something for Silver Mushroom has really become so much fun. Last week’s episode of bake-off was all about Victorian recipes so I had to try and hunt down a period recipe – who better to turn to than Mrs Beeton. Read more…
Yet another pastry week on bake off went by and excitement buzzed as everyone knew a soggy bottom was coming – but who would it be! I love pastry week – pies, tarts and puff pastry are amazing fun to make but I often find it is surprising just how Read more…
It has been a few months since I last took part in a photo challenge as I have been chaotically busy. August’s theme for A Lilhoohaa’s photo challenge was all about a rule of thirds so I thought that I should try and take part. My photography style generally doesn’t Read more…
It is already day 30 of my challenge to learn 125 signs in a month and I have been lucky to be able to interview the incredible organisation BSLBT. BSLBT is an organisation that was set up in 2008 to create shows for Deaf people by deaf people. Even though Read more…