I love lemon. I’m pretty sure it’s my favourite flavour for just about anything: sweets, ice cream, tea… It’s also a great flavour to add to things like salmon or chicken. And then, of course, you’ve got the baked goods. If you go back through the recipes I’ve posted on here you’ll notice I add […]
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Is there anything better than waking up to a sight like this? Everything covered in white, looking like a winter wonderland? I hardly think so! It made me very cheerful (which is quite rare for me in the morning) and “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” has been stuck in my head for […]
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“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” Miles Halter’s whole life has been one big non-event, until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever and undoubtedly screwed up, Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world and irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles, nothing can ever be the same again. First published: […]
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About two and a half years ago me and (most of) my high school friends graduated high school together, and after the summer of 2011 we all went to university. We’re all majoring in completely different things and we’re all very different people, but we vowed to stay friends after high school. Back then, my […]
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About a week ago I felt the familiar itch to bake something. After all, it had been over a week! Seriously, before I started this blog I didn’t even bake once a month (I think) and now I can’t go without baking something for a week. How quickly things can change… I wanted to bake […]
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When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps into a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, swindlers and misfits in a second-rate circus struggling to survive. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that Jacob meets Marlena, […]
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A few weeks ago Danielle (from Journalitico) posted a post called Just Takin’ Some #Shelfies, in which she showed us pictures of her bookshelves. She mentioned an article from The Guardian, who invented the concept of “shelfies”. I immediately loved this idea, which is basically a parody of the selfie (a picture you take of […]
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I thought apple turnovers were a Dutch delicacy, until I Googled them this morning. Turns out, they’re quite international! I didn’t do any extensive research on them or anything, but Wikipedia didn’t mention any specific origin, and Google gave lots of non-Dutch recipes, so that made things kinda clear. The reason I thought they were […]
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Sooo, it’s the 2nd of January, 2014… A new year, already! For me, 2014 feels a bit like a fresh start. 2013 was quite a tough year for me, but I’m looking forward to this one, and I’m feeling all energised and positive, which I hadn’t thought possible a few months back. Part of my […]
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An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one […]
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Books Baking and Blogging 