Scottish Lunch

What do you do when you’re seven and a half months pregnant? Host a lunch for six of your favourite girlfriends and cook four courses… Hmm. I might not recommend it as normal practise but it was a lot of fun, even if I could have slept for three days afterwards! I have this wonderful…

simple hospitality

I remember as a little girl sitting at the top of the stairs in my nightie, the upstairs landing dark but light flowing from the hallway at the bottom of the stairs. My little sister sat next to me, probably in matching nightie, and we would sit and listen to the snatches of conversation that…