I have just been considering when to start decorating HfH for Christmas and have had a contemplative moment (always dangerous). I was transported back to Christmas 2011, a pivotal point, and oh such a lot has happened in those 4 years – this is where the screen goes wavy to illustrate going back in time…. My Mum and Dad died within a month of each other – this hits me at the most strange times; and a fact that haunts me daily is that no family member could get to the hospital

Lots of people have been asking me for the recipe for Magic Custard Cake. I came across this recipe quite a while ago and have baked it several times, always with great success. Don't ask me for the science behind it, it really is a mystery, but to quote one recent guest it's "delishimo". So here it is, we hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Magic Custard Cake 125g butter, melted and cooled 500ml milk 1 tsp vanilla extract 130g sifted icing sugar (including a little for

Hello again, How the year has flown by. The clocks have gone back, and the nights have drawn in, Half-term and Halloween have come and gone. The All Blacks deservedly won the World Cup and the Villa have sacked Tim Sherwood. But don't let this or the long nights get you down, you can still do things; Graham has taken to dusk bike rides, where he is rewarded by an owl ariel display and escorted by a phalanx of bats as he cycles along the lanes with the dogs. Perhaps not ev