The longer I have chickens (the half dozen that reside in my back yard) the harder it is to write that ingredient in shopping lists or recipes. It feels very, very wrong, and I know it’s only a matter of time before that white meat will disappear from the diet altogether.But it hasn’t, not just…
Author: Joanne Hill
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Jane Austen, Harry Potter, Fifty Shades, Tolkien and the Luminaries
In a nutshell, I have not read Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, The Luminaries, Lord of the Rings or Fifty Shades of Grey. (That’s a pretty spectacular list, I must say.) This post was originally written for a different blog but being that “content re-purposing” is the in thing, I present it here. A friend was…
Being sick, losing weight
No, I am not sick, but I have been reading Debbie Macomber’s latest book “Twelve Days of Christmas” and there’s a great bit where the heroine is sick.She, Julia, has the flu, and the hero is in her apartment helping her.He asks what he can do for her, and she says “Can you help me…
Fare-thee-well Santa Bears, et al
A week, almost, into 2017.Eiphany is upon us which means – time to take the decorations and the tree down, pack the santa bears away, and hope all the excess chocolates have well and truly gone.(Please let all the chocolate be gone so the recovery process can begin…) Over the new year, I’ve been planning…
ALL ABOUT SAGE
FINALLY HERE! Yess!!!You can buy it on AMAZON hereDo leave a review on Amazon or goodreads if you can – it is so appreciated. Sage Lockwood and Ethan McGraw were never meant to end up babysitting their best friends’ children. For a start, their lone experience of childminding was something they’d both rather forget –…
A CAKE STORY
Or as this should be subtitled: My most recent culinary disaster.Today I post about cake.I had to make a cake for a thing, and being as occasionally cakes I have baked have turned out okay – I’ve been making a mess in kitchens for a while now – I planned on making this one the night…
2015’s Christmas Dessert Disaster
WARNING: Contains bad language but is said in the spirit of frustration so I accept your forgiveness in advance, you’re most welcome, and please read on. So.Pretty much every year something unexpected happens around the Christmas dessert.Once it was when I made the pavlova on Christmas Day – the actual day – and it was…
Playing at being a farm girl
I just got back home after a week at my other home, down at the farm.Though it isn’t actually a real farm. The olds sold up their big farm years ago and down-scaled, and now the land is leased out to a neighbour so its his sheep and cattle there out on the paddocks these…
CHRISTMAS DOWN UNDER
Christmas Downunder is a digital boxed set featuring novels from six of us who were in the Love Downunder set – me, Serenity Woods, Kris Pearson, Annie Seaton, Tracey Alvarez and Rosalind James.Mine is a brand new book – Promising Penny. There’s an excerpt, below.It’s set in Auckland, NZ, and features some of the characters…
BOYS – AND BARRY THE VEGAN
Well.I have gone and committed to another boxed Downunder set with a Christmas theme, with a book that is barely written.Idiot much. Or doing my best work under pressure.Both, I would say, because there is surely a severely strange masochistic streak at play here that would require the insight of several psychologists to resolve. None…
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