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Camp Bestival – Medieval Fancy Dress

I’ve just had an email from the PR company for Camp Bestival notifying me that that I have to be in fancy dress and the wonderful Smiffy’s fancy dress experts to the stars will have a costume waiting for me to collect on Friday – thought I’d get away with that one, obviously not!  …

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Camp Bestival – how to put up a tent

How to put up a tent Two days to go – today’s lecture is on how to put up a tent easily, effectively and with little stress. 1.  Book into a preprepared one, ie a tipi, roundhouse, airstream trailer or yurt preferably with built in furniture and maid service (this is my personal preference, but…

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Top 10 cookery tips for people who can’t cook

This is a piece I wrote for Bathmums, if you’re a parent and you live in Bath you have access to this fabulous online magazine giving you the low down what’s going on where for families , if you live elsewhere you’ll still have access to their fabulous articles but may have to travel to…

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Birthday breakfast in bed and Thai noodle soup supper

It’s my birthday, haven’t yet decided how old I’m going to be, I figure that when you reach 30 you get to choose from then on, so maybe this year I’ll be 34 as that’s the age one of the children at my Saturday Morning cooking club said he thought I was – its good…

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New Year – New Book

I am so excited, my first book comes out this year.  I’ve been hard at work over Christmas writing the recipes for my new book ‘500 meals for babies and toddlers’ to be published by Quintet Publishing.  It will be on the shelves in August this year and is full of no-nonsense, down to earth…

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