During this wonderful hot, sunny weather, I’ve been converted to the merits of this lovely soft cake.  The inclusion of fresh fruit makes the cake very moist, light and strangely refreshing. Both strawberries and raspberries have been very successful. Just follow the recipe here but substitute 100 g of fresh raspberries. (In fact, I added 200 […]

June and July are busy times for small rural villages and our weekends have been packed with communal activities ranging right across the spectrum of jolly things to be done in high summer.  A local choir performed summer songs of enchanting loveliness in church after which we repaired to a marquée in a parishioner’s garden […]