Oats. Oats and beer. And brewer’s yeast. And grilled chicken. And boiled eggs. And green leafy vegetables. And pulses. And almonds. Plus some naturopathic drops which taste suspiciously like Fernet Branca. Then there’s fenugreek tea, which leaves you smelling like you stumbled out of a Brick Lane curry house late on a Saturday night. And […]
baking
This is not a unicorn. This is Pancake. He’s the smallest of the horses who totter around the paddock at the rear of my mother’s house. He’s the property of my nieces and nephew. He may be tiny, but his dreams are big. He insists on being the first at the feed and will back […]
There’s no point crying over spilled milk. I hazard that whoever coined that phrase has never knocked over a bottle of breast milk that it took fifty five, pinching minutes to harvest. Or spent a good five minutes contemplating if there are ways to salvage any of it (the answer it seems is no). There […]
This is a cake that brings good things in its wake. I realise there’s been a lot of cake up here lately. My apologies. There’s also been a bit of baby chat to wade through. It’s easy to get distracted by things like that. So for now, I’m going to do this thing upside down. […]
It feels like Christmas. It feels like Christmas, but it’s not. Yet we’ve still been given the world’s greatest present. Introducing William Frank Haschka; Will for short. Born: 10.44 am on the 8/8/2013, clocking in at 3.175 kg, or the equivalent of 7 1lb bags of flour. He responds well to brief. It was just […]