Author Archives: Becky

Thankfully Hubby is now much more mobile and very pleased to be able to drive again. I’m wary of him carrying anything too heavy, but, rest assured, he’s behaving and doing as he’s told 😉 Before his surgery we wrote The List. The Master List, you understand. With all the stuff we needed to acquireContinue reading “The List.”

After a busy morning yesterday, I came home to make cake for the beleagured shopkeepers – #cakefriday. Because some of our local young friends aren’t too well I’d decided to make a double quantity of Ginger cake – it’s soft, sticky and has a great flavour to tempt their tastebuds. So, ingredients and equipment ready,Continue reading “Nobody’s perfect ;)”

This is not my favourite time of year. I much prefer long, balmy summer days when I can potter in the garden, stroll by the sea and hang washing out to dry. Instead it’s a quick nip to empty the bin, with coats, scarves and gloves any time I venture to town on these short,Continue reading “Super soup…”

There are certain tasks I simply don’t want to be involved in, they are the Blue Jobs. So into this category I put anything to do with cars, except driving them, lawn mowing, vegetable growing, wallpapering ( the only time I tried it the paper peeled right off straightaway) and cleaning toilets. You get theContinue reading “Pink or blue?”

All credit to her, Mary Berry has been working in the food industry for the last seventy years. She never achieved any qualifications at school in Bath, where I trained, but she did get a City and Guilds in Food and became a Home Service Advisor for the Electricity Board. That had seemed like aContinue reading “Mary at 90!”

Last weekend we bought a broadsheet newspaper as usual – we like the puzzles section as well as the glossy magazine etc. I came across an article which went into great detail about the standard of British food and cited Ebbw Vale, a town in Wales, as proof that “the British diet is killing us”.Continue reading “Disappointing news…”

Yesterday afternoon I had a lovely chat with Sarah on her Suffolk Sound radio show. It was loosely based on preparations for Christmas, but as a novice, she was particularly intrigued by the process of making a Christmas cake. We talked it through, starting with soaking the fruit in brandy to plump up the raisinsContinue reading “Art or Science?”

Having prepared for a chat with our local radio host on Suffolk Sounds about preparations for the festive season, I thought I ought to set an example and do something! Usually I wait for half term but this year I’ve been amazed at all the Christmas decorations already in the shops which has spurred meContinue reading “Countdown….”

…. in the news again! As usual I bought a newspaper last weekend, it was the Daily Telegraph simply because we like the puzzle section and there’s lots to read over the weekend. Imagine my surprise and horror when, in the Weekend section, I found a large picture of a man holding a pan withContinue reading “Le Creuset…”

About thirteen years ago I came across a Medlar tree in a garden centre just north of Woodbridge. It was too tall to fit in my car so I paid and Mr. G put a SOLD sign on it, then hubby had to go and collect it. At the time, my classroom had a “QI”Continue reading “Meddling!”