Here’s a question for you to start your week - how do they mass produce honey?
The Surgeon General keeps bees so I know a little of how it is produced on small family farms, and it is fairly labour intensive to make honey. Plus honey from Long Meadow bees always tastes far superior to anything [...]

Ooh, it is a Sunday and I am willingly writing a Roast. I must be getting better! Actually, the week has been a bit pants, but with the aid of lots of tea and cookies it is looking up and I am all set to take on next week and whatever it has to throw [...]

What is your measure of a day? I used to have an informal rating system based on toast. A day was either a soggy toast day (bad) or a crispy toast day, which was good. Seeing as how I am now denied bread and all bread-products - something that is very, very hard for me [...]

I am treating you all abominably at the moment, dear blog readers. No Sunday Roast again. I sat down at the computer last night to have a quick pre-Sunday gander at what I had instore for you all today, and was driven to swearing. Loudly. Out of deference to my poor father reading this on [...]

Ah, memes, the answer to every uninspired bloggers prayers. It’s been a while since I was tagged and even longer since I saw a meme I actually thought I’d waste time and valuable post-inches on, but when Edrei asked, how could I refuse?
Here we are then. Seven random things about me. Since have been [...]

Honey, I’m home!
Sort of, kinda, very nearly.
Charting the ongoing return of Cas (I have been very firmly, boring old Claire Louise the last month or so), I think my true personality might be pretty much back. On Thursday morning one of my lovely colleagues pointed out that I still didn’t seem like my usual self, [...]

This post is brought to you thanks to the nagging of Moose. She has elected herself Motivator-in-Chief and if I don’t blog something to show I am alive I wouldn’t be surprised if she didn’t start denying me cookies.
Which would be bad as I am in the middle of an inexplicable cookie craving (big, chewy [...]

I am having a disturbingly intense desire to get inked again. I kid you not - some days, the desire to get another tattoo is overwhelming to the point I am reaching for my coat and front door keys. So far, what is left of my sanity has always stepped up to the plate just [...]

You never know where an innocent link is going to land you. In my case it has landed me with a glow of self importance and a bruised hip, the latter being more related to the former than you might at first glance expect.
I woke up late this morning to a slightly buggy Twitter [...]

It is not often you can claim that a blog post is written because of an IKEA mattress, but every now and again circumstances conspire. Yes, this blog post was written because of an IKEA mattress. Intrigued? I invite you to read on a bit more .
I make no secret of the fact that [...]