I'm just popping in very quickly to say hello! and to tell you that I have a perfectly legitimate excuse for being away for so long: we're moving house. When I returned from South Africa I found a very large letter with a nasty note inside - our flat, which we rent, was being repossessed because our annoying landlord has failed to pay his...

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Have you seen the new Baked & Delicious magazine on the news-stands? It's bright and pretty and oh-so-desirable with attached silicon bakeware. It gave me a bad case of the wanties when I went into Tesco's earlier this week and perused the magazine racks. I admit: magazines are my guilty pleasure. I don't like glossy magazines with celebrity gossip. I don't like magazines that cost...

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Okay, I know I've been a very bad foodie blogger by distracting you with photographs from my holiday and pretty pictures of knittery but I have just one more. I'll be good after this, probably. How can you not be positively smitten by this heart design? I love the colours, the textures, the attention to detail and best of all: it's entirely hand-made. My...

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I started an ambitious knittery project while I was away on holiday. We were perusing a yarn store (as knitters are wont to do, it seems) when we happened upon a back-dated edition of a local magazine featuring a very cute little jacket for girls. And hey, what do you know, we happened to be looking for a very cute jacket for a...

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Perhaps one of the things I love most about being home is being amongst people who love food. Not just my family, mind you, but South Africans in general. Everything happens around food: we socialise at food events like braais or afternoon teas, we get together for family dinners, and we dine at each other's houses with food that would make Come Dine With...

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Hello Blogland! I'm back in the land of high-speed internet and long, grey clouds! I missed you all with your cheery comments and visits very much. I had a wonderful trip home, aside from 'flu and work (of course), I spent a lot of time with my family, we almost sorted out the wedding dress (!) and I have 1,602 photographs to show for...

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Emma, my mother's other daughter, turned three last week. She's my half-sister; we're 23 years apart. And, as no three-year-old's party is complete without the essential baked goods, we got stuck into the kitchen! Cue: a giant two-layered moist chocolate cake covered in buttercream. The problem with a cake like this is that it simply does not appeal to small children. If I were...

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