I am so into quinoa right now. Sure, I’ve enjoyed it for a while, but my feelings have developed. Right now quinoa and I are having a little bit of a love affair. Specifically, it’s this quinoa and bulgar wheat mix from Waitrose which...
I was looking around the pantry shelves thinking I’d make some sort of no-bake energy balls. But then I just made it up as I went along and created these babies.They’re like the healthiest chocolate-topped flapjacks you could ever imagine. But never mind that,...
So when London tea bar and shop Piacha invited me in to sample some of their delicious brews, I was unsurprisingly keen. I’d presumed it’d be a case of “choose a cuppa, take a snap, drink up and ta-rah.” But no. I was treated to a...
I make no secret of my love for Twitter. Or Instagram. Or social media in general for that matter. Am I obsessed? No doubt about it. Does that bother me? Less than it probably should. Meh. So when I came across the website Poetweet, I was...
As a young girl, I was somewhat obsessed with dolphins. Completely and utterly obsessed really. I even wanted to be a marine biologist so I could work with dolphins, but then I realised that would require a lot of science and so scrapped that...
My lunch at The Mae Deli was as fab as I’d been hoping. And having been following their Instagram account for a few weeks since before the deli opened, I had high hopes. If you haven’t heard of The Mae Deli yet allow me to introduce it –...
I was despairing. The essay I’d been set had driven me to tears. Yes, really. Degrees ain’t easy, kids. And what do I automatically look to for comfort in times of despair? You guessed it: chocolate and tea. But I’m not meant to be...
Yesterday was a particularly quiet day at work so I took myself off to our magazine archive for a spot of organising. I was by myself, dancing around to ‘Stacy’s Mom’ as I worked, having a whale of a time. Less than 24 hours...
I recently acquired the Hummingbird Bakery recipe book, “Cake Days” (more to come of how I did so in the next few weeks! It’s more exciting than it sounds. Honest) and am very impressed. It’s a huuuge book, so of course there are cupcake,...
Oh, there’s nothing like a spot of Christmas-themed baking! With festive tunes to set the mood, I had a blast concocting this recipe today. Essentially, they’re chocolate orange cupcakes, and you could leave them at that at any other time of the year. But now...