On Friday Earthy Foods opened their third store in Canonmills. As I totally love their branch up on the South Side, I was so glad that I live a stone’s throw away from this one. I didn’t make it down there on opening day (damn you work!) but popped in as soon as I could…
Category: General
Foraging Fun
As part of the Edinburgh International Science festival there have been a number of events held at the Botanic Gardens, including the Real Life Science Kitchen (post coming up soon!) and this, the Foragers Breakfast. The experts guiding us through the event were Miles Irving, a forager and wild food expert and fellow forager John…
Tart Attack!
Tonight I picked up the courage to venture forth to a meeting of the Edinburgh Cake Ladies. A few weeks ago I rushed to put my name down for this latest event, and realised halfway through the email, the theme was ‘Getting Tarty’, which means only one thing… pastry. Over the last few weeks there…
Through the Pinhole
I spent a lovely afternoon at the Botanic Gardens today, spring was definitely in the air as the place was abloom with crocuses, daffodils and narcissi. An added bonus was the Pinhole Photography Festival that is currently on there (ends Friday 16th) and the fact that everyday at 2pm they hold a beginners workshop. As…
At the curbside
A post tonight on twitter regarding the lack of a food truck revolution in Edinburgh got me thinking (or more reminiscing) of the great food I ate during my autumn trip to the East Coast of America, which appears to be food truck central. This wasn’t just fish ‘n’ chip van style food or bland…
Ommmmmmmm
And there was a lot of that in my yoga class today, in fact actually at one point there was a risk of ‘zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz’. Today was a change from the usual routine of our lunchtime class; normally there’s breathing, some stretching, a few rather weird (and painful) positions and then some relaxation (of which I…
Sunday Market Goodies
I never left the flat yesterday, by lunchtime today I was getting a little cabin fever. Stuart dragged me out for a walk and the chance to re-adjust to daylight and human contact. He tempted me by the fact that the walk would involve a stop at the Stockbridge Market, which equals: goodies! It was…
Cotton or China?
A little thing Stuart and I started on our 1st Wedding Anniversary was to buy each other a novelty gift relating to the traditional (or in some cases modern) items that are said to be for each anniversary. For our 1st Anniversary the ‘theme’ was paper. Stuart bought me notebooks, somewhere for me to continue…
Two Years ago since…
….Stuart and I finally tied the knot! It only took us 7 years! We had a wonderful day with friends and family around us to help us celebrate. We got married back in my home town of Belfast, it was a cold, snowy but sunny day – we even had photos taken on beach! Our…
Put your First Foot forward
Happy New Year!! I had a lovely evening here in Edinburgh bringing in the new year with some good friends, over tons of lovely food and the odd glass of vino. We managed to leave the warmth of our flat and walk across to Inverleith Park to see the fireworks at Edinburgh Castle, which were…
Queen of Everything 