A non-race weekend
Well many of my recent posts have been all about the races I’ve been doing. It is now two weeks since I’ve actually raced. Yes, this was another non-race weekend! What to do on a…
baking
Realisation, Virtualisation and Muffins
Winter has finally arrived in Manchester. As is pretty normal, Winter waits to get Christmas out of the way before striking in January. To be fair, I ought to use a small letter for winter –…
Plaited loaves
Proving that even ham-fisted cookery morons like me can make bread look like I knew what I was doing with it……..
Bake Off Fail
I enjoy my baking and if you’ve followed my posts for any length of time you’ll have probably seen the photographs of some of my creations. I go for substance over style, which is probably…
A week of running
I’ll do another recipe soon, but I like to get a photo of the goods first, just to whet your appetites 🙂 In the meantime a running update. Because I’ve not spoken of running recently………..
The proof is in the pudding!
I posted a few of my favourite home recipes yesterday – it makes me look like I have a very sweet tooth although that isn’t actually the case. Please, try them out and let me…
A bit of cookery goodness
My recipe folder is almost 30 years old! The card folder was given to me at school and there are yellowing pages about safety and hygiene in the kitchen and a line which states “two…
On yer bike, and what exactly is filling all those wardrobes?
Sometimes you just have to swallow your pride. I knew I knew nothing about bikes which is why I took it in for a service before the Manchester-Blackpool bike ride. I’m just glad nobody else…
Running for Easter and Bach again.
It’s the Easter weekend and as luck will have it, my weekend off has coincided with the bank holidays which gives me a 4 day weekend. Yesterday was a domestic day. I started off with…
Running quickly away from Sky
A day off and a chance to try to get up to date with a few things. Had a good gym session – only ran a 5k but was working on changing pace which was…