Welsh Witterings: The Pleasure of Preserving
This week the term lock-in has come to mean something very different to me. No longer does the term lock-in conjure up images of local boozer allowing patrons to...
Welsh Witterings: for the love of toilet roll
How, exactly, did toilet paper come to capture our headlines and attention? In the earliest days of the coronavirus health emergency, long before any thoughts of self isolation or...
Welsh Witterings: is it time for rationing?
Now that I am finally out of the hospital with my baby boy, I have been able to see first hand the chaos that is referred to as panic...
Welsh Witterings: counting my blessings
It is easy to take things and loved ones for granted. We all do it to some extent, but lately I have been reflecting on this and also on...
Welsh Witterings: Pondering over the High Street
This week I have been researching and writing about changes in the bakery industry over the past 100 years. In between getting engrossed in accounts of 1920’s bakeries and...
Seren’s Favourite Article of the Year. Welsh Witterings: It Takes the Biscuit!
There is nothing better than a hot drink and a lovely biscuit. A good cuppa deserves a good biscuit, but therein lies a problem, finding a good biscuit is...
Welsh Witterings: Christmas Eve Traditions
It’s finally Christmas Eve, and hopefully you can now breathe a sigh of relief as you’ve made it through all the hustle and bustle of the build up to...
Welsh Witterings: 2019 a difficult economic year for retailers
As the year is preparing to draw to a close and Christmas shopping is in full swing I have been reflecting on how 2019 has been another tough year...
Welsh Witterings: Advent Calendars
There was a time when one of the first signs of Christmas in a British home was the unveiling of the children’s Advent calendar. The calendars were simple, but...
Welsh Witterings: Dining Out Drama
Lately I have done my fair share of complaining about my recent dining out experiences being disappointing rather than delightful. Sadly last weekend was no different and yet again...
Welsh Witterings: getting in a pickle
It’s that time of year again when I begin pickling onions. I like my pickled onions with a bit of bite and a good crunch and quite frankly most...
Welsh Witterings: Making the Christmas Cake
My Christmas preparations always start with making the cake and this is something that I get the whole family involved in. Some people like to make their Christmas cake...
Welsh Witterings: Christmas is Coming but its Spirit is Lost
It’s that time of year where my inbox seems to fill up with Christmas offers and gift ideas. Suddenly it seems that a type of mild hysteria about last...
Welsh Witterings: Grab your Tin Hat
This week I went off to Hawthorne Trenches, in Elham near Canterbury. The trenches have been recreated at a working farm, by the farm owners nineteen year old...
Welsh Witterings: Glorious Glastonbury
This week’s Welsh Wittering come from glorious Glastonbury, where I have spent the weekend at Karen Kay’s rather wonderful fairy market. I have met some wonderful characters and have...
Welsh Witterings: A Visit to Montgomery
Last weekend I decided to tear myself away from both research books and child centered activities and venture out to the pretty town of Montogomery in Mid Wales Marches. ...
Welsh Witterings: Ssshh the Secret of Anti-Ageing
Well anti ageing is one of those industries that has thrived on women’s insecurities for years. The allure of pots of cream and lotions and potions promising youthful skin...
Welsh Witterings: Good Honest Pub Grub
I’ve often lamented about the state of modern pub food and how I would love to go for a pub lunch and be offered a menu full of straight...
Welsh Witterings: Birthday Girl
Another year has passed and I am officially another year older, though I don’t think I’m any wiser. I’m now at that stage where I no longer get...
Welsh Witterings: Summer, Puddings and Filming
Lately I keep receiving e-mails telling me that now the Summer has drawn to a close I need to be doing everything from buying woolly boots, to shopping for...
Welsh Witterings: Busy Times
The chaotic rhythm of my life continues this week as I try to complete deadlines, raise four girls, deal with the washing mountain and prepare for my television appearances...
Welsh Witterings: Great Taste Awards and Puddings
This weeks Witterings are written from the comfort of my sitting room and quite frankly I wish I could sit here all day, but alas I must tackle some...
Welsh Witerings: A Small Bump Announcement
Well, in case anyone isn’t up to speed with my news I am expectng a new baby and so in March 2020 our family unit will become seven strong....
No Welsh witterings : it’s a wash out
I’d love to say that I have written this week’s witterings from a hectic festival field where the sun is beating down, but alas I cannot as it...
Welsh Witterings: from a field
This week’s Welsh Witterings are written after a very long and busy weekend serving vegan and vegetarian cuisine at the World Yoga Festival. I am actually sat in...
Welsh Witterings: It’s Festival Season
It’s festival season and my feet know all about it. Far from relaxing on a festival site I am serving up speciality teas, home baked cakes and now the...
Welsh Witterings: finally a good meal
For two days I had been serving up culinary delights for a private party but not a morsel of the fine food I cooked had passed my lips, so...
Welsh Witterings: Where did all the good food go?
Well, it feels like I have been travelling on a high speed treadmill, the treadmill of self employment. I have done three back to back events and whilst everyone...
Welsh Witterings: tea party on tour
This week’s wittering are written as I sitcom a field in Cornwall contemplating the task on packing 200 teacups and saucers. Why? Well, I have spent the past three...
Welsh Witterings: Food of the Faeries
Next week I will be lost in the world of the faeries as I attend 3 Wishes Fairy Festival in Cornwall. I have been promising to take my daughters...
Welsh Witterings: On the Move
Don’t panic I am not moving again, but things are positively on the move. I am no longer humming the tune, ‘living in a box’, although I am...
Welsh Witterings: Ducks, Books and Classical Music
The move is over and the settling in process has begun. My four children are all delighted by the fact that there is a nice park opposite our cottage...
Welsh Witterings: not quite a shop museum.
For many years I have been wittering on about opening a shop museum. Since the age of 12 I have collected food and drink packaging and it’s fair to...
Welsh Witterings: Good British Pies
Come rain or shine I don’t think you can beat a traditional British Pie. For me its not the exotic fillings of Morrocan tagine or spicy combinations that...
Welsh Witterings: The Move Must Go On!
There is just ten days left to when the I must have my move complete and I do feel like I should sing the lyrics, to the closing track...
Welsh Witterings : Cornwall or the Caribbean ?
Whilst drowning in deadlines and surrounded by packing boxes; I have been dreaming of escaping to a tropical paradise. My little daydream has seen me gazing at clear, blue...
Welsh Witterings: Tea and a Sit Down
With so much going on lately, I have been dreaming of a nice holiday or at least a nice cuppa and a sit down, but alas neither are on...
Welsh Witterings: More Moving
My life at the moment seems like one giant move, indeed I have been swathed in bubble wrap and encapsulated by brown packing boxes for two months now and...
Welsh Witterings: Britain Not Child Friendly
For the best part of a decade I have been a mother and I have so many beautiful photographs of my two eldest children and I, when they were...
Welsh Witterings: Do you see what I see?
The task of moving home and business has found me riding on a wave of memories. Each time I have emptied a drawer or cupboard memories have been churned...