Finding the chase and cutting to it

As you’re aware, we’ve swapped our old manual thermostatic radiator values with Tado’s “smart” ones. Once the first one was done – even though we’d read the instructions and watched the video, this was still a 15 minute task for the first one.  We felt like fools but having sussed out the procedure, it took […]

It’s a beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon in early October and I’m sitting in the kitchen with my feet up. It’s the first time today I’ve had a chance to rest and I’d like to explain why. Doesn’t sound in the least interesting! Harsh, but true 🙁 Here’s why I’m writing this. We’re still in the […]

If you’ve ever watched “Deck the halls” with Matthew Broderick andDanny Devito (alphabetic order of surnames), you will understand how seriously out of hand outdoor Christmas lights can get. Thankfully, our neighbourhood is significantly saner than that moviesuggests it can get. It does lead to the question – how do you make the task of […]

OK!? What are we talking about today, please? OK… I was born in 1973 and that year there were 3.912 billion people on the surface of Earth. In the 1970s the oil crisis was on, the 3 day week, frighteningly high inflation and difficultly in making ends meet for many in the UK. Today there […]

I’m thinking about putting some of my recipes down in a cook book as I’m sitting watching Saturday Kitchen. The past few months, Saturday morning has been spent making my pasta for the week with Saturday Kitchen playing in the background while I’m hands on and my focus while I’m doing the waiting. I’m 48 […]

We don’t have many biscuits in the house, but those that do make it over the threshold tend to be plain chocolate digestives. My fault: I am not a fan of the milk chocolate used for biscuits, it’s a bit sickly. So plain chocolate digestives were the compromise because I really am not a fan […]

I’ve never had french onion soup – there’s a fundamental problem with it when I eat out and that’s the edition of a layer of cheese on the top. I love cheese and onion and gravy – believe me, French onion soup is the equivalent of onion gravy and who doesn’t like onion gravy? – […]

The past few weeks have been spent in a couple of key ways while using up some leave. Oh yeah? Yes. Firstly having been given a kit by a friend to enable my food mixer to be used as a meat mincer, or grinder to my American friends, and finding neither me or my husband […]

Lockdown, in the UK, has afford many of us opportunities as our busy commute and work lives have dramatically changed. Due to shortages last year, I have started making bread from scratch in my bread maker rather than using packets. To be honest, the mixes are interesting because someone has done all the experimenting for […]

This week has been interesting in a few of ways. Firstly, we got a reminder about the 2021 census which we’re keen to do. Government grabbing data to chase us on taxes… No, way of establishing the make up of the country and working out where budgets should be provided. Plus of course, it allows […]