Author Archives: Becky

Over the last few days we’ve had ripe tomatoes and two cucumbers…tomatoes fresh from the plant don’t last long though as they taste amazing warm and just picked. When we bought the greenhouse, the plan was that I’d be able to have a pot of freesias just inside the door – we’d share it. WellContinue reading “Greenhouse news!”

…the jasmine’s in bloom. It’s a song I love which speaks of July being dressed in a tune. Only this week there was a magical tune audible in our little High Street – it was coming from the “crocodiles” of children walking from the railway station to the beach, with cries of “I can seeContinue reading “Sweet days of summer…”

It’s been wall to wall coverage of Wimbledon for these two weeks so if you aren’t a fan, then it must have been a pain! For me, it’s been brilliant. I started to play at secondary school and even represented the school in a match against a prestigious Bedfordshire school. Did we win? Honestly IContinue reading “Anyone for tennis….?”

Somewhere, at the back of a high cupboard, I have a book called “Listeria Hysteria”. It’s with “Panic Nation” and “You are what you eat”. Where are these books? I’m not sure. But Listeria is a dangerous bacteria causing Listeriosis and is particularly dangerous to pregnant women, young children and the elderly. Quite where elderlyContinue reading “Listeria in the news again…”

We’ve had such a busy week. Just now I realised that it’s so important to have those moments when nothing much is happening and even this afternoon I spent time with a friend just sorting through buttons. Why? you might ask… well my Macmillan group was given yet another jar of very old, stale fastenings.Continue reading “The importance of quiet…”

Goodness me, it’s hot. It’s a lot hotter in South Carolina though and we’re able to keep an eye on the temperature there as we have an old friend from Lexington staying with us. She’s become an intrepid traveller spending a week in Kent, visiting London, Whitstable and Canterbury before taking Eurostar to Paris –Continue reading “Phew!”

Looking back I’ve always been fascinated by food, whether “helping” my mother or Granny in the kitchen at an early age or being transfixed by Miss Hobby, my first Cookery teacher. She was of the jolly-hockeysticks brigade who had a very sensible way of teaching. She left the High School and Mrs.White arrived, with talesContinue reading “Influence(r)s.”

A couple of news items caught my attention this week. The first is the proposal to offer free school lunches to all children whose families receive Universal credit in England. That’s great as long as the quality of the food is taken into consideration when the costs are looked at. Let’s not go back toContinue reading “Food in the news again…”

Not clouds, but cake tins. This week I caught sight of a celebrity chef taking a baked cheesecake out of its’ tin and the amount of crumpled paper hanging over the edge of the tin was not just untidy but an unnecessary waste. Lining a tin needs to be done accurately and may well involveContinue reading “Silver linings!”

We’ve just come back from Norwich – a place we like a lot and, of course, people we like a lot too. I had my picture taken with Paddington Bear and delivered cake to the Cathedral (Emmaus House to be precise), had lunch with a young friend and discovered mutual friends and colleagues with CanonContinue reading “Today’s the day…”