What a month. May is always the month of birthdays, including my own. I'm grateful that my birthday had allowed me to reconnect with people I hadn't spoken to for ages. But I've noticed this month I have been rather stressed from all manner of things, which has heightened my senses and made me rather easily [...]
Recently there has been a lot of online content for people to learn and educate themselves regarding Black Lives Matter and racism. Some have resonated with me and so thought I would share. Levels of racism I came across this on Instagram, linking to a blog post from a couple of years ago [1], which [...]
Made lemon chiffon cake for my birthday last week. I love lemon flavoured things, especially lemon chiffon cake. We used a recipe from Nigella Lawson who was apparently inspired by Konditor and Cook, and I'm not surprised as the best shop bought lemon cake I ever had was from Konditor. Here are the ingredients we [...]
Kindness is the theme of Mental Health Awareness Week this year. One act of kindness can lead to many more, like a lovely domino effect. A green ribbon is the international symbol of mental health awareness. The charity behind this week in the UK is the Mental Health Foundation, which was founded in 1949, but 2001 [...]
We have been thinking a lot lately about moving away. This pandemic and staying at home/ indoors has made us consider that where we live right now might not be the best place for us to flourish. It then got me thinking about beautiful properties with lush gardens and amazing interiors, which then got me [...]
April sure has been one hell of a month. There have been many days where I had great difficulty finding something I was grateful for. Work creep has been coming back again, and with no commute I have been finding it harder to have that line of putting down work and picking up home time. [...]
So it's been my fourth week working from home, I think. I've kind of lost count really. One of the things I've missed is listening to podcasts on my hour long commute to work, so that's about two hours a day. I use Player FM to download episodes and am currently subscribed to 23 different [...]
So I've been thinking about baking recently and looked back at recent pictures of cakes I've baked. And it turns out that I apparently like baking different variations of Victoria Sponge. I know two recipes that work quite well, both from the Good Housekeeping: The Baking Book that I have. Essentially one recipe uses self-raising [...]
Endless May Dreams 