Brighten up your weekend with this Brilliant breakfast


Breakfast! You know you should always eat something first thing right? Well, you wouldn’t drive your car without putting fuel in it (or charging it 😛 !) I know some people can’t face anything first thing, but we should all try to eat within a couple of hours of waking – even if it’s just a piece of fruit! ???…

You need chocolate cake! Your special reward!


Yes! Sometimes we just need cake! 🙂 If you’ve had a week like mine… cake is most definitely in order! A good cake will make you forget everything and a good chocolate cake, well, that’s just doubly good! 😛 This chocolate cake is layered with fresh raspberry puree and a creamy coconut layer. So good! 😀 You can layer with…

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Opportunities abound, what can you achieve?


Opportunities come and opportunities go, but what do you do with them? Maybe you think too much? Should I? Shouldn’t I? What if this? What if that? Then the door is closed and you missed out! What if you just leapt and said yes? It would save all that time wondering, thinking, over-thinking! If you think back to something you…

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Who needs a simple pancake recipe for Pancake Day?


Please tell me you love pancakes as much as I do! 😛 😀 ? You do know that next week is Pancake Day right? or Shrove Tuesday? Yay… any excuse to eat pancakes – not that you really need an excuse, but just in case you do!  We have them for breakfast or brunch mostly, thin pancakes, or thick pancakes,…

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I believe you can and you will! Do you?


You are amazing! You do know that right? ? Just look at your life. Look what you have achieved. ? There’s more than that. Look closer. Really look at your life. ? See what you have achieved. Write it down. ? You know there’s still more… think harder! ? ??????????????????? Now think about something you want to do. Maybe something…

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Need an Energy Boost? – Make this Veg Soup


Hands up if you have eaten your weight in chocolate, cake or biscuits recently?! ✋ Me! 😛 But how could I resist this lovely vegan carrot cake which arrived in the post! Yes! In the post! 😀  I ate over HALF of it! (no… not in one sitting)! Then there were the pretzels and the shortbread, and the pizzas… that’s…

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Find your rewards at the end of the rainbow!


Have you ever chased a rainbow, hunting for the end, thinking it is just there, just in reach? ? Then you get to where you thought the end was and look up, it is somewhere else. ? So you go over there and still the end is not within reach. ? No matter how hard you try, that rainbow just keeps…

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Bread rolls with seeded toppings, freshly baked and still joined together

Impress the best with easy homemade bread


I had great plans for today’s post! Why? What’s special about today? Today is a day of remembrance. It was this day last year when I received a phone call that changed my life forever. It was on a Friday evening exactly one year ago, that my estranged sister (the eldest one), phoned and literally stated “Dad died”. My Dad…

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heart shaped cookies

Win their heart this Valentines – make perfect cookies!


You can do this! You need to do this! This is the perfect recipe, which makes perfect cookies, perfectly easily! Perfect! 😀 Well, you wouldn’t want anything less than perfection for your Valentine or Galentine would you! 😛 This a plant based shortbread recipe which can be customised to your liking with different shapes, different fillings, left plain, sprinkled with…

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