It's week 2 of our building works at home and we are still in hiding at our cottage.  We are keeping things simple here - patchy interne...

Well, at least that's what it feels like at the moment.  We have moved out whilst the building work is being done at home and were lucky...

It's been a busy couple of days...we are having building works starting on Monday with a wall being demolished, the kitchen being ripped...

The last few days have just flown by and my mum's visit has come to an end - she's now on her way to London to spend time with my br...

Baba ganoush Writing about the houmous recipe the other day reminded me of another beautiful little dip/sandwich filling that I love: ba...

1952 edition Mr Happy Larder is on his way to London to collect my mum from the airport whilst I finish making the last preparations.  T...

My mum will be coming to visit on Wednesday for a few days and I want to have some nice things prepared for when she arrives.  I made the ba...

Wanna play a game? There are days that are really busy and productive when I can't wait to do stuff and others when I find it hard t...

The sun came out a little this morning but still no bees buzzing in the garden.  I am really quite worried, especially after hearing about t...

It's been absolutely shocking weather here - yesterday especially we had torrential downpours and temperatures never got over 8 degrees....