valentines

go to bed well after midnight the night before after a lovely evening with good friends eating tapas sleep in late wander into main room looking for husband both lie on the coach with your feet fighting for space, sharing the knitted blanket watch the snow falling comment that my husband looks very cute in…

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Possibly the strangest title of any book I have read. Mum and I both had this book on our Christmas lists this year, and conveniently both bought it for each other 🙂 Last week I had to make an overnight trip to Germany for some meetings so had around seven hours of train journey to…

Daring Bakers – Nanaimo Bars

The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca. And I’m back! After just over an hour sitting on my countertop, the nanaimo bars finally thawed enough to cut…

carbon hotel

One of the most original wedding presents we received was from one of Rasmus’ colleagues and his wife. They gifted us a night in a hotel in the east of Belgium, a hotel that they had been to a few months before when grandparents had taken their cute french-speaking son off their hands and they…

daring bakers…. coming soon

I did take part in the daring bakers challege this month. I know, I know, it’s been ages. But I blame it on getting married, and then Christmas came along so unexpectedly… The thing is, this one was indeed a challenge for me, which I wasn’t really expecting. But that might be because I bought…