About

When I started writing here, I was in my 20s and had a lot of free time, much of which I spent reading. Now I’m in my 40s, with kids and a job and volunteer work, and consequently I write here on a much more irregular basis, I cannot emphasise enough how irregular it is.

I made 100 new recipes in 2013 and recorded them here. In 2014 I started learning to sew. In 2015 I read a lot and took a few photos. In 2016 I had another kid and I stopped sewing. For over a decade I made mixes of Christmas music (and burned them on CDs, until the demand for CDs disappeared). I read lots of books each year. I like to sing and play ukulele. I occasionally write vague and unformed thoughts about parenting, the books I’m reading and other things that cross my mind.

The most popular posts on this website are ancient recipes with terrible photos, like Moroccan Chickpea Haloumi Bake with a typo in the URL,  or Gateau Lawrence, which admittedly from memory was a great cake. I wish they were things I’d written about parenting which I think are objectively a fair bit better.

My husband writes and records very eclectic instrumental music for fun. I think it’s pretty cool (I’m only slightly biased).

Elsewhere on the internet, I log the books I read on Goodreads. I occasionally put ukulele videos on Youtube. I have email.