food
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Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day, and since my UPF free Lent, I have become obsessed with overnight oats. I’m a basic girl and just soak the oats in water with grated apple and chia seeds, adding fruit and natural yoghurt in the morning – and I really look forward to it. During Read more
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Kentish cherry season is underway. The general fruit and vegetable stall in the town has been selling cherries for a while now, but it is always more exciting when the Faversham cherry lady arrives with her stall, and there is always a queue of people waiting to buy a pound of cherries from her laden Read more
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I love the Eurovision Song Contest and have been watching it on and off for more years than I care to remember. I first became aware of its existence in 1976 when Brotherhood of Man secured a win for the UK. I don’t know whether I was actually allowed to stay up and watch it Read more
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I have never been tempted to give up anything for Lent before, but there has been so much in the press and online about the health implications of eating ultra processed foods, that I decided it would be interesting to see how easy it would be to completely cut them out of my diet for Read more
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I had a slow start to the new year as I once again struggled to adapt to the return to work. For some reason this tends to be the time of year that I am most likely to suffer a CFS relapse, and so I was trying to be very mindful not to over do Read more
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In our house, Stir Up Sunday is a hotly anticipated date in the run up to Christmas – the last Sunday before Advent and the day traditionally reserved for making Christmas puddings. The name comes from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, which includes the line “Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills Read more
A Little Kentish Magic 