Yes, I’m celebrating! After what seems like many years in the wildnerness of temporary work, I have finally got a job! I am coming up to a BIG birthday and what better present than this? It seems like the last decade was marked by redundancies, deaths of loved ones and the search for work in a [...]
It’s Friday. The end of another working week and I have been promising myself a treat for when I get in… when I get in and change from work clothes into my jeans and a jumper. ….. for when I go upstairs and lounge on the sofa with my feet up. I can picture it now. [...]
There is, as you will probably know, a rather famous coffee liqueur. In my kitchen there is a jar of something very similar… let’s call it Aunty Mary. After all, I’m not Spanish so I wouldn’t call it Tia…. oh but there you go, it’s NOT the famous coffee liqueur, is it? It’s me with [...]
I first made this years ago and it is rather like Marmite… not in taste, of course, that would be silly, but in causing complete polarity amongst my friends. They either hate it with a passion or they love it. Toffee vodka – at least this rough and ready version of it – is the [...]



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