Where were we; oh yes, we were eloping to Scotland. Wow. It’s still a little scary to think it. And it’s getting even harder to write about. But here’s part two of the ‘haste to the wedding’ story, from leaving home until the end of the wedding day. And for those who don’t know the reason these posts are entitled...

Well, the secret is out now, after being together 20 years, James and I eloped for a late-summer wedding overlooking the gorgeous Loch Lomond. And as we’ve been asked a few times what prompted this, a blog post seems in order. However, that’s not really so easy to write, not least because this is all quite personal....

I’m writing this on ‘National Cream Tea Day’ not long after I succumbed to scone fever with two recent events requiring the baking of scones. However, it’s not me doing the baking - James is the one who’s rather good at scones - so much so, I call his scones ‘the clouds’. Hence, another recipe-sharing blog post…

This blog uses a fair few icons, such as the icons in the menu. Until today, these had been placed using a font kit from Font Awesome, which worked by using JavaScript to replace tags with the appropriate icon from their library. However, for some time I’d been wanting to move away from this method…

It was great news when I heard that the club had arranged for us to take part in the Herts Sunday cross country league, the winter sister competition to our usual summer interclub competition. As I prepared, I was very pleased to find that I’d had some forethought 2 years ago, and had loosened the spikes in the...

For the past year, I’ve been learning to play the tin whistle from a starting point of very little musical experience. I’m hoping to write more about that process in a future post, but here I’m focusing on my most recent efforts practicing some jigs during January. Hence ‘jiganuary’.

It’s long past stir-up Sunday but not long past when a blog post on the family Christmas pudding recipe seems a good idea…

I do love a good kebab - one place I lived even had a fabulous kebab van complete with its own fresh tabbouleh. A staple of the takeaway kebab is also a pickled chilli; I wouldn’t dream of picking it out to throw away…

Although I love creative hobbies, time is always a factor that means I don’t do them as much as I like. A few years ago, I discovered decorative planning, and this led me into into exploring the concept of making my own personalised planner…

Today saw the return of the Duck n Dash aquathlon for its 11th year. This is an annual favourite for me, combining a 400 m lane swim in the Letchworth outdoor pool with a 5 km run round Norton Common…

Getting a ballot place in the London marathon is a lucky thing. London marathon don’t publish the number of ballot places that they have, but estimates I’ve read say it’s ~17,000. We do know that there are usually ~40,000 runners…

I’ve found myself doing a more than average amount of baking over the last year or so, including bread and in particular sourdough. Here are some notes on the process that I follow to make sourdough…