I have been aware of Plastic Free July for a few years now, perhaps first coming across the initiative via The Slow Home Podcast in 2016. This year I finally felt that I have the headspace, inclination and enthusiasm to give it a bit of a go myself. We’ve already made a number of swaps […]
Category: NOURISH
Nest, Nourish, Nurture: preparing to welcome autumn
With the Autumn Equinox on Sunday, this week marks the true beginning of the new season. When I woke up on Monday morning I swear I could sense the change in the air. Sure, that might have had something to do with the cool 15 degrees the temperature in our bedroom had dropped to, but whilst my […]
An evening with Yoga Brunch Club
As evening fell on a warm June day, I joined a group gathered to enjoy a yoga class with a difference. Yoga Brunch Club – as the name suggests – can usually be found popping up on a weekend morning, with brunch clubs held regularly in Bristol and London. Switching things up for this midsummer […]
Pumpkin Salad with Fig & Goats’ Cheese
This seasonal pumpkin salad with fig & goats’ cheese is so full of the joys of autumn I simply love it! I have this thing with pumpkins, they just bring me so much joy to look at and eat that I can barely walk past them without buying one. Seen as my local greengrocer has […]
Yonder Collective Dinner – Encounters
On a rather wet evening in May 2016 I joined a group of Bristol based creative-types who gathered for the third Yonder Collective dinner. The theme for the event was ‘Encounters – encountering ordinary things in unexpected ways’. For me, the first encounter of the evening was discovering the hidden gem Salt Cafe Deli, whose […]
Interview: Bristol Home Bakery & Cake Delivery
280 Bakes is a home bakery and cake delivery service in Bristol. Along with a monthly home bakery on the third Sunday of every month from their base in Lawrence Weston, 280 Bakes delivers traditional home bakes such as banana loaf and carrot cake to homes and businesses in and around Bristol. As well as the comforting classics 280 Bakes […]
Cook It: Hasselback Potatoes
I’m not really a potato person, how ever they come I tend to find them the least interesting part of a meal – even the most perfect roasties get left on my plate after a roast dinner (shock horror I know!), but I think these Hasselbacks may have me converted. After seeing them pop up in my […]
