Even though it's freezing, dark and often raining despondently, I love Manchester in the autumn. Fog transforms the city into the scenes of Valette's œvre, the bright leaves and swirling …
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Food
FLUFFY CHOCOLATE AND HAZELNUT CREAM SPONGE
10/07/2021
This recipe originally comes from one of my favourite recipe books. It's called Cupcakes, with recipes by Lee Currie, and it's full of innovative recipes for different cupcakes. The one …
FOR THE LOVE OF GRANOLA
23/05/2021
...Hi. Hello again. Oui, c'est moi, out of hibernation once more. The past several months have been so frustrating, so soul-destroying, so horrifyingly difficult, not to mention dull, that I can't …
SPICED ORANGE AND PISTACHIO CAKE
30/08/2020
Hello everyone!! It's been a while! Can you believe I've been writing this blog for over a year?! As a little celebration, I made this cake. This recipe originally came …
This feels like the opportune moment to do a bit of a 180 with this blog, and start publishing my recipes. Which was something I'd intended to do from the …
Grab a pew, everyone. It's time to talk about Mendoza. I spent Christmas with my mother in the sleepy city of Mendoza in western Argentina. It was absolutely dreamy. We ate …
Perito Moreno glacier Hello and welcome to my first post of the new decade! Patagonia is a hidden gem for globetrotters. Spanning the nether regions of both Argentina and Chile, a …
SÃO PAULO IN BRIEF
18/11/2019
Ibirapuera Park Hi friends! Today I'll be recounting my trip to São Paulo, Brazil. Surrounded by forest-covered mountains, with pastel tower blocks emerging like benevolent ghosts from the trees that fill …
Convento de San Francisco In contrast to my last post, I spent last weekend wandering around Colonia del Sacramento, a tranquil little town on the Uruguayan coast whose pastel buildings and …
Back in May, I was invited up to Buckingham Palace Gardens to collect my Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award. This was an important day for me, as it had taken …