Catching up

Been too busy to blog this month - or maybe too cold and damp and spent too many evenings huddled by the fire catching up on Nordic Noir!!

And so this was Christmas . . . 

Meeting with friends old and new in Bakewell

 Where we sneak a shot of the original bakewell pudding recipe

 and learn that Jane Austen once stayed at the Rutland Arms back in the day

 Then the Christmas Eve arrivals dive straight into cake decorating

 and Apple Studel sculpting

 using our magic ingredient gift

 exhausted chefs

 Aperol Spritz's for Christmas morning (recipe here)

 crptic packaging to open

 There never was such a one . . .

 and all to quickly, back off to London to see in the New Year

so next we have a wedding to go to . . . . .