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I am so excited to announce a new joint venture with Cambridge Kitchens & Independent Retail Month in partnership with “Love Cambridge”. This is a superb support for indie traders and retailers and I’m thrilled to have been asked to get involved. With the fantastic and fully functioning demo kitchen that Cambridge Kitchens will be offering (complete with “Great British Bake Off” style oven doors, wahoo!), we will be joini

It’s the start of a new week and time to think positively for a great 7 days ahead… First things first, brew a pot of tea with me and decide on 7 positive changes you can make this week, mine are as follows: 1. Exercise. Today. Not tomorrow. Not on Friday. Today. Get the dog walked, hop on your bike, grab an aerobics DVD or even pop the Xbox or Wii on to get moving. 2. Eat well & drink more water. As easy as i

A few months back I received an email from Lindsey who was plotting a secret baby shower and afternoon tea party for her friend Liz. She wanted to book me to pop over and teach them some of my delicious afternoon tea recipes in preparation for their own little feast later that afternoon. She had invited me to join her and 7 of her friends in Cottenham to set up base in one of their kitchens. Once we were ready she popped out t

I was inspired to write a quick blog post on this subject whilst stumbling across a lovely blog titled “British Cream Tea” run by a lady called Ouissi, who teaches her readers to stitch and make felt cakey creations amongst other gems. Her latest blog post was titled “The 3 reasons why I am not doing this alone” and she talks about how in business, you are advised to surround yourself by a great team, b

I get asked several times a week on my opinions of the best Afternoon Tea spots in Cambridge and the surrounding area. I have reviewed many places over the last 2.5 years for my column in The Cambridgeshire Journal Magazine, it’s so much fun! Of course, first of all, I would say, book me to visit you in your home and teach you how to make your own AMAZING Afternoon Tea offerings.. but if that doesn’t suit your need

After 3 years of very successful and fun Afternoon Tea events, I am now offering up my Afternoon Tea Baking expertise in the form of my new Baking School.. in your very OWN home. You can read all about my personally designed Afternoon Tea baking lessons here. I plan to be your very own “Fairy Cake Mother” – Resting by your side with a cuppa in hand showing you how to bake, but letting you do it all… you

Nowadays, there is a competition or giveaway for absolutely anything and everything and more and more people have become cynical about them.  I entered a Facebook competition a while back and two people had pretty much a go at me, advising me that it was a *con* and that it was just a marketing strategy.  To me, that is absolutely fine, it hasn’t hurt me to enter, I just had to *Like* a Facebook post, no harm done. How o

Fathers Day is coming – if you didn’t know already! And what on earth are you going to buy your old man or the kids dad this year? Every year it gets harder and harder, especially when they don’t want for anything and another set of novelty golf tees just aren’t going to cut it! Well, look no further, Miss Sue Flay will sort you out and help you to book a Fathers Day experience like no other – She will help you to

On Saturday, I was lucky enough to be invited to help judge 100 chocolate cakes as part of the Cambridge Bake Off with the Cambridge Evening News. Yes, you read that correctly, one HUNDRED chocolate cakes! We took over the Cambridge Cookery School and the lovely owner, Tine Roche guided is through each cake, allowing is to sample a tiny mouthful of each in a controlled manner so as not to make any of us sick with cake overload