Recipes, Tales and Adventures

Sunday 3 April 2022 Today was going to be a new route for me in my quest for fitness.  A few years ago, Mr M and I did a route from Gleneagles arou...

Saturday March 26, 2022 Saturday night, or to be more precise, 2 am Sunday morning, sees the start of British Summer time as we put the clocks forw...

Have you ever planned to do something just because it seems such an impossible thing for you to achieve?
 
A couple of months ago I was enjoying spending a day with a small group of friends, chatting, laughing and discussing our business ideas or, as we like to call it, creating magic. As we all happily munched on lovely home-made soup courtesy of Kim, followed by cakes, bakes, meringues with cream and a whole host of berries, Saffron told us she was training to do pull-ups at the gym. Saffron also admitted that the only reason she was aiming to do the pull-ups was because she truly believed it was an impossible task for her to achieve.
 
“Go Saffron”, we all cheered, whilst grabbing another cake. It’s hungry work creating magic with friends.

As I’ve told you in one of my other stories, Christmas time at our house is always a special time.  This year was gearing up to be a spectacular on...

You wonder how it happens don't you.  One minute you're looking for an outdoor tearoom with a canopy to shade under from the heat of the sunshine t...

A bit of fun, reading the story of Advent Calendars and Lots of Vowels because Treasa, the star of that story, is the winner of our December prize ...

During the first Covid lockdown in 2020 I was looking for different ways to continue my love of writing and stumbled across the Campsie Writers' Gr...

What feels like a life time ago now I began to put together my first book.  Well at the time it wasn't a book, it was a jotter with my different re...

Here's how to make your own fabulously tasty gluten and dairy free digestive biscuits. Have these just as they come or try dipped in chocolate, wit...

I feel it’s about time for me to say hello to the world again.  It’s me, the lost Yorkshire Girl.  Well ok, I’m not really lost but it certainly se...

A bit of a different blog this week. Sometimes weeks fly by with nothing to tell you then others have so much in them that they just need to be tol...

It’s been almost a month since my last blog when I reflected on the madness of the year we’d all just had.  For me it included closing the tearoom,...