Geoff and I thought we should like to potter around the garden a bit more this summer so we set aside this weekend to get our thumbs thoroughly green.
I’ve only got a little garden, no bigger than a postage stamp, but we decided it shouldn’t be hard to get a nice little herb patch [...]

I’ve been experimenting with lots of cupcake recipes this morning but, in honour of the romantic nature of our first book, I’ve settled on a lovely looking Red Velvet cupcake to bake for the book club upon our first meeting.
Ingredients:
* 1 2/3 cups sugar
* 5 tbsp vegetable shortening
* 1 large egg white
* 1 large [...]

Well I had a lovely surprise today – a call from Geoff’s mum! I’d sent a card after the BBQ to say thank you for having me and she hadn’t replied so I’d been a little worried that we hadn’t got on quite as well as I thought, especially as that was almost a month [...]