Favourite Cookies (updated Jan 2021)

It's Bake Off time again!  Here's a nice easy, delicious, dairy free recipe to accompany a cuppa or a coffee.  Ingredients: – 60ml (1/4 cup) soy mylk (or other dairy-free mylk) – 1 teaspoon vanilla extract – 200g dark chocolate (the Lidl one in the red packet is great), roughly chopped, hit with a rolling …

Fruit tea, peach juice and truffles

Three short recipes which can be made plastic-free

“Confidence. Resilience. Faith.”: Lakeland 100 2018 (Part 2)

This is part 2 of my checkpoint-by-checkpoint account of my first 100 mile race. Part one (here, if you missed it) finished around mile 58, running with Kate through Dacre and into Dalemain, where the dropbags are. It's 1pm on Saturday; I've been going for 19 hours...   Running was the best feeling. Hard, but …

“Little by little, one travels far…”: Lakeland 100 2018 (Part 1)

Here follows an almost mile-by-mile account of my first 100 mile event – purely for selfish reasons as I don’t want to forget any of it! If you want a bit more background, my account of my 2017 Lakeland 50 race is here. I've split this race report in two so you can have a …