Superb sunshine festival 2015

Every year Sunshine music festival is held right by our house in Upton Upon Severn; it’s a great festival for all and this year was no exception. Over the last few years it has got bigger and better. It’s a great location, even if I am a little bias with it being so close to home. This year there was magnificent music, fabulous food, fantastic fireworks and spectacular sunsets. The line up was brilliant, the personal highlight was Gabrielle, back in the day I was a big Gabrielle fan, although her set was shorter than most expected it was brilliant, it turns out I still remember most of the words to her big hits. I was especially happy when......

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Cornish Pod Glamping
August 23, 2015

Cornish Pod Glamping

You might recall seeing on my twitter feed a few weeks ago that it was my birthday last month, so the boyfriend treated me to a few days away in Cornwall. We left it pretty last minute to book and we really struggled to find a nice hotel with availability, after hours of googling (we always manage to spend forever trying to get something booked when we want to go away), eventually I came across Atlantic Surf Pods in Bude. After about two minutes on their website I was adamant it was where we should go, the other half took a little more persuading but by the next morning it was booked. We arrived at Atlantic Farm where Atlantic......

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Surprisingly Quick Strawberry Jam

You might remember a few weeks ago we went strawberry picking, with planning for my Granny’s 90th Birthday in mind I wanted to make some of the strawberries into jam that I can use in her birthday cake. There is something really rewarding from making your own jam, especially knowing exactly what has gone into the jam, no additives, preservatives etc. I decided to use the Ball Preserving recipe and processing method to make the jam, I was amazed to make a batch of jam in less that an hour, which if you have made jam using traditional methods you will know sounds like a dream. The Ball Home Preserving Starter Kit has everything you need to get started......

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Livestock Festival Shenanigans

At the weekend I was lucky enough to go to the first Livestock Festival in Longdon, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, although Sunday morning I didn’t feel too lucky. I’m not a big drinker; I can go months on end without a drop of alcohol so don’t always know my limits… I may have had one too many on Saturday night. I will not be drinking for a long time now, back of the clean living! It was a great festival with good food, great atmosphere and fantastic line up including Scouting for Girls, The Feeling, Toploader and Jermain Jackman. I’ve been a fan of Scouting for Girls since they began but never seen them live and I saw The Feeling......

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A Rather Indulgent National Cheesecake Day

I work in one of those offices where when it is your birthday you are expected to take in cakes. As I was on holiday for my actual birthday last week I decided to wait until today and make cheesecakes to celebrate national cheesecake day… Who doesn’t love cheesecake?? Both cheesecakes I made went down extremely well. As I am on a bit of a healthy eating drive at the moment I think they expected something super healthy, but I couldn’t do that to them so I made one super indulgent cheesecake and one slightly healthier, this is the indulgent one. No Bake Triple Chocolate Oreo Cheesecake  400g crushed milk chocolate digestive biscuits 150g melted butter 720 g cream......

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