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In which there is a Royal Wedding and lots of bank holidays

After eleven days off it’s always hard to get up in the morning and go to work. The fact that these past eleven days have passed in a lovely haze of sunshine, cider, cake, camping, cream teas and gin...

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In which weddings feature again

A few weeks ago I was asked if I wanted to produce and edit a 40 page wedding supplement for a local magazine. As you can imagine, it didn’t take a lot of persuading for me to say yes! As well as...

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In which I finish my magnum opus and make my first ever bearnaise sauce

And I’m back! 32 pages, five articles, one fibreglass cow and too many captions to count – my wedding supplement was finally finished last Thursday and is now at the printers. I am so proud of it and I...

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In which there is the fruit of my labour

This was worth all the late nights, the trek across Bath carrying heavy dresses, the endless to-do lists and the worry that the wedding cake would melt during the weekend it was sitting in my bath tub....

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In which we celebrate the old and bring in the new

So there’s 10 hours left of this year. It’s a very grey and murky 31st December here in Bristol, and we’re having a lazy day hanging out in the house and watching films, punctuated by a little light...

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In which there is February so far in bullet points

The month has so far been all about the cooking. S’ birthday involved making two dishes I’ve not done before (salted caramel brownies and beetroot tart tatin) and then the very next day we started on...

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In which I rediscover my inner child, and eat yet more mini Easter eggs

Another weekend, another wedding. This marked my third this year and my seventeenth (!) in total – and that’s not including my own. I think it’s a self fulfilling prophecy: if you work for a bridal...

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In which the sunshine finally makes an appearance

Up until last weekend, the month of May and me were not seeing eye to eye. The rain was continuing to lash down and the temperatures were ridiculously cold, an arts project I was managing was running...

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In which G&Ts, spas and festivals all combine to create a very lovely weekend

So July is whipping past in a haze of work, work and more work, plus moving offices – for the third time in three years! – which is involving a lot of crate packing, sorting and recycling. Not the best...

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In which I look back on a fantastic year

I can honestly say that 2012 has been one of my best years ever. I knew it was going to be pretty special, what with turning 30 and the small matter of a three month round the world trip, but it outdid...

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