Certainly a highlight from my recent holiday to the Amalfi Coast was my afternoon in Ravello. A beautiful town way up in the hills overlooking Minori and the azure sea below. Ravello has a strong heritage in the arts and is known by many as ‘The City of Music’. It has a strong and vibrantRead more
I recently put up a poll on my Instagram stories asking if you had heard of Teff before and 100% of you said: “No, never”. To be completely honest, before I had been asked by Lovegrass to create a recipe using their 100% Teff fusilli pasta I hadn’t either. So, what is Teff? In aRead more
Firstly, apologies are needed. I have been rubbish and neglected you all on here. I have found May a really difficult month and haven’t really been myself for the most of it. Firstly, my cat Archie was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour in his stomach. His health rapidly declined and he lost his battle aRead more
April has to be one of my favourite months. The evenings are noticeably lighter, the weather seems brighter and sometimes we get a bout of bloody good weather. Only sometimes, mind! One day it’s blowing a gale and freezing the tips of my fingers until they go numb. The next I am stripping of theRead more
My regular readers will know I have a passion for supporting independent businesses. Crane & Kind opened up in November 2018 in the beautiful seaside town of Sidmouth, East Devon. In fact, my old home town and where I grew up until I left home for the bright lights of Exeter (*giggles). I had beenRead more
I am a bit of a sucker for an excuse for a gathering around food. You can’t beat a table full to bursting with homemade goodness surrounded by friends and family. Easter is one such occasion where we can slow down a little and take time to enjoy our surroundings and share time with ourRead more
Having not celebrated Mother’s Day for well over a decade and a half I felt that this year I would change that. After many, many years of upset and disappointment, my relationship with my mother broke down. We stopped communicating which in all honesty lifted a huge weight off my shoulders. There was a pointRead more
A brand new shop, Di Tea has opened a two-minute walk from my house on Howell Road, Exeter. Well, I say shop in the loosest terms… it’s essentially a small garage that has been converted behind my local Chinese restaurant. A nifty way to make your dream a reality I guess? If the queue isRead more
Last Saturday the clocks changed. It might have meant one hour less in bed but that’s a small sacrifice to make to have lighter and warmer evenings. To celebrate the change, Steve and I headed down to Topsham. A small picturesque town nestled next to the Exe Estuary, a 10-minute train journey from Exeter. TopshamRead more
March has been a crazy month weather wise. Beautiful warm sunshine with some temperatures in the UK reaching 21 degrees celsius one week to the chill of storm Gareth with gale force winds, sleet and torrential rain the next. Doesn’t the saying go “March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb”? ThisRead more