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This recipe is a great Easter dessert – you could decorate with mini eggs, or if the kids have been given too many easter eggs and you want to use up some of the chocolate (Shhhhh). Biscuit base 200g biscuits of your choice (I used a mix of hobnobs and digestives – gluten free digestives…

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”  – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, (The Little Prince) The rose, with its tender and beautiful flowers, but surrounded by sharp, harsh thorns appears in accounts from all of the world’s major cultures and religions as a symbol of love at work…

Pisces: 18 February – 19 March There is a lovely dreamy, loved-up, creative week starting up on 12th at the new moon in your sign so really luxuriate in that. But is also clashes with the ‘big stuff’ out there in the cosmos where times are indeed changing but in ways that are still very…

The march of digital technology continues as BT counts down the days to the end of analogue telephone lines.  What is it, why and what difference does it make?  Come with me… The hoary copper wires that have carried telephone and broadband for so many years are becoming rather pricey to maintain, not to mention…

I’m not sure if this technically counts as a salad?… but it seems you can call anything a salad these days and so I’ll let it stand! I’ve used Halloumi here but  if you want a vegan alternative you could use Tofu as a great replacement.  Serves 4 You will need 600g New potatoes Bunch…

As we move into the month of February with its often bitter and cold weather gardeners might ask the questions: will Winter ever end? will our gardens ever be green again? will it ever change or will it stay dark forever? However if we look closely at nature, the signs of awakening are all around:…

The sugar edition! It’s that time of year when hearts and flowers would be filling the shops (if they were open…..)  So here are a couple of ideas to make your own valentines gifts this year.  SUGAR COOKIES 3 cups plain flour + 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 cup caster sugar 1 cup + 2…

Capricorn: 22 December – 19 January OK, so you have held things together pretty well for the whole of 2020 but that was then and this is now.  It won’t happen quickly but 2021 is going to present you with some very new challenges of a kind that may be completely unfamiliar to you up…

Privacy seemed to take a huge step forward with GDPR.  While you now see cookie warnings on every site you visit like some weird graffiti welcome, your privacy is still hotly contested.   Protecting your online privacy is… remarkably difficult.  The privacy obstacle course is in three main parts: getting online; finding things; and visiting…

Never has there been a more important time for us to take care of our health. We have all spent 2020 very aware of the fact that those who are not in the best of health are more vulnerable to Covid 19 as well as many other viruses and illnesses. Being unfit or overweight also…