Daily bread

Daily bread

This year I’ve decided to hone my culinary skills and will be tackling one foodstuff a month.  I’ve started the year with one of my favourite foods, I’ve been on a bread making mission.  I’m already a dab hand making soda bread and beer bread...
Yee haw ….

Yee haw ….

I read somewhere that there is only one thing more annoying than people who parade photographs of their children are people who are self indulgent about their pets. I get that sentiment but it doesn’t stop me loving my bassets and wanting to share stories about...
Strawberries and Cream

Strawberries and Cream

Living life as an expat upside down plays havoc with your senses, most notably because seasons back to front .  Take strawberries for example.  To a Brit strawberries are synonymous with tennis at Wimbledon in June. From my teens to my thirties, I was an avid tennis...
This is the life

This is the life

There’s been a loud ticking sound around the place in the last week.  No, it’s not the cicadas arriving early but the sound of jobs being ticked off the list.  Well, I confess, it’s actually writing being smudged off the chalk board but I like the...
All work and no play

All work and no play

There was a most indignant look on the basset’s faces when they were woken from their slumbers this morning at an ungodly hour.  After much stretching, scratching and yawning they succumbed to the early rising, but purely on the grounds that breakfast was being...