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• The Canterbury Tales

  

  If you are at all familiar with Canterbury, or even if you are not, you should have heard of Chaucer. The medieval author of saucy bawdry who to this day is... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Reading Nook: My Notorious Life by Madame X

  

  I'm a sucker for a good title, and even worse for packaging. It's one of the reason's I'm very careful to avoid Paperchase if I can help it - you would never ge... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lime Cheesecake

  

  I love going to someone's house for dinner. You feel so much more relaxed than when you go to a resturant, you don't have to be out at a certain time, it's... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2014 CREATIVITY, FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Skiing in Tignes

  

  I'm sorry things have been a bit quiet on the blog front recently. We finished our run of Hobson's Choice the week before last (more about that to come) and the... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Htamin Sa Pi Bi La

  

  ? This is the traditional greeting of Burma and translates appropriately as 'Have you eaten?'Burma is on my bucket list of places to visit. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Flare Path by Terrence Rattigan

  

  There's a new kid in town.A new kid who flounces and projects and stalks around the stage wiggling their eyebrows with the best of them. My work place has... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Apple and Cinnamon Cookies

  

  I'm in a bit of a baking phase at the moment. Steve is playing cricket on a Sunday afternoon which normally gives me a couple of hours to potter around and... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Coconut Hair and Scalp Treatment

  

  I like to think I treat my skin well. I exfoliate, moisturise, buff and polish myself. I do this from head to foot making sure every last inch has been... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 CREATIVITY, HAIR & BEAUTY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Tankus The Henge

  

  It is a question that has plagued pondering philosophers of the perfect pitch persuasion for eons.What happens when Ska falls in love with Deep South Jazz and... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Rice Krispie Squares

  

  I don't have kids and I don't work in a school so I never remember when half term is until I get in my car on a Monday morning and realise that all the traffic... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 CREATIVITY, FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Serge Lutens, Un Bois Vanille

  

  I've been waiting a while, over a year in fact, to do this review as I wanted a new bottle of my favourite perfume in the world to photograph. This is my... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hobson's Rehearsal's

  

  I'm rehearsing again. I feel like such a glutton for punishment - I finish a show, swear I am taking a break and sitting the next one out just so I can catch... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gumbo

  

  Driving rain, floods, hail, storms and high winds. It's all a bit bleak here at the moment; everything is cold and grey and wet and miserable. Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Reading Nook: The Knitting Circle and When God Was A Rabbit

  

  I'm currently in another play. A Victorian play to be exact and at the very first rehearsal the Director came bounding up to me in a manner reminiscent of an... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 BOOKS, CREATIVITY, CULTURE, SELF EXPRESSION

• La Trappiste

  

  It's been a week since I'd seen Ellie and Claire. A week. Now that may not sound like much to you but when you are used to seeing each other at least 3 times a... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sansa's Lemon Cakes

  

  In my quest to make the perfect Game of Thrones dinner menu for the next season premier I had to try out Sansa's favourite little lemon cakes from King's... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2014 CREATIVITY, FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Burns Night

  

  Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!Aboon them a' ye tak your place,Painch, tripe, or thairm:Weel are ye worthy o' a graceAs... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2014 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Winter is Coming: Bacon Lattice Beef Pie

  

  Winter is coming.No it really is. I know it's basically February already but after an unseasonably warm October-December I am finally getting the use out of my... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Chocolate Cafe

  

  If you have a sweet tooth that you have trouble controlling you may wish to look away now.No, don't read any further.Stop right there.You didn't stop, did you?... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2014 CREATIVITY, DINING OUT, FOOD & DRINK, SELF EXPRESSION

• Coconut and Pistachio Baklava

  

  I have always loved baklava. The sticky, flaky, honeyed pastry treat that so many different countries lay claim to, from the alabaster marble sheathed temples o... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES