Christmas and covid

Here we are!!!! Another Christmas done with! Hello Boxing day! I feel deflated sad and overwhelmed about it all, cooked food made puddings baked cakes and here we are just Hubby and I what a sorry state of affairs. spent three weeks before Christmas baking and my babies don’t even have there share of the

Walking for Christmas

Yes I am still baking yesterday baked orange drizzle cakes and a few more black treacle and ginger cookies they seem to vanish pretty fast. I hope that it’ll be it. Still have a few more bags to fill and it’ll be it presents done… Today I’ll be baking gluten free cake. No rest for

Christmas and family

Christmas for me is a reminder of the happy times that I had growing up in an island in the middle of the Atlantic. May Madeira my homeland my paradise my Dad used to tell us that we were very lucky to live in a little corner of paradise and he was right about that.

Walking or baking?

December for me is a month of nostalgia! It always takes me back to my childhood, my little house in Essex smells heavenly, just like the house that I and my siblings grew up in my Madeira our little paradise….. The scent of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and black treacle. Mama baking all the goodies for

Walking in the snow

This week we have had a mixture of weathers, a little bit of everything. Monday woken up to a hard frost then on Tuesday we had mist, Wednesday beautiful sunshine and quite mild too. Thursday a grey day and on Friday the snow arrived. I had decided not to walk on Friday but when I’ve

Walking

On Friday My friend Paula and I walked to the lakes it was bitter cold the ground covered in a sheet of frost looked so beautiful! We took a few photos the sun was coming out shining through the trees, but we did not linger for very long it was so cold and my friend

walk the countryside

Just had another walk, after 2 weeks of not walking due to a bad foot, it felt lovely to be able to be out doors again we had a heavy frost this morning but it did not feel that cold. You can still see signs of Autumn some leaves still hanging on to the branches.

Misty mornings

For the past few morning have been walking with a limp, the mornings are getting colder now, with frost and mist very atmospheric I must say. This morning looks amazing with a thick fog so am here thinking should I go walking? Or perhaps rest my foot. Walking through the footpaths lifts my spirits walking

A walk in Autumn

With all the Autumn rain, walking can be quite hazardous slipping and sliding with all the clogging mud that we collect along the way with every step that we take, getting harder to lift our boots. But it does not deter us from pushing ahead looking for that illusive Roe deer or hare or anything

Ginger lily

Have Brought this lovely scented plant ginger lily, from my Island in the middle of the Atlantic my Madeira, where it grows so freely…. did not think that it would survive in our English climate! That was about 7 ago and am so happy that it has done so well even when we have the