Ann
- May 19
- 9 min
River Cruise: Avalon: Rhine and Mosel
Falling in love with river cruising - with Avalon Waterways
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Ann
- Apr 25
- 2 min
Yorkshire’s Great Food and Drink: Paradise Café
Paradise Café at Daleside Nurseries in Killinghall, Harrogate opened last month and offers a welcoming and beautiful café cum fine dining cu
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Ann
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Yorkshire's Great Food and Drink: Mackenzies Farm Shop
Yorkshires great food and drink: Mackenzies Farm Shop
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Ann
- Feb 16
- 3 min
Yorkshires Michelin Stars: 2022
Some of Yorkshire's finest chefs have been among many to be served up some brilliant news today. Today, 16th February, is undoubtably one...
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Ann
- Jan 13
- 4 min
North Yorkshire Coast: Runswick Bay
I am drawn back to one of North Yorkshire coast’s most scenic destinations time and time again – Runswick Bay with its wide sweeping bay...
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Ann
- Jun 6, 2021
- 2 min
Japanese Knot Bags: Handmade in Yorkshire
Japanese Knot Bags are fabric bags which have a beautiful shape, due to the bag having only one main strap. It is looped through a short...
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Ann
- Apr 3, 2021
- 2 min
A Scandinavian Tradition: Semlor Lenten Buns
How often during your busy workday do you take a break (besides lunch)? For Swedes, the time-honoured ritual of fika—translating to...
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Ann
- Mar 6, 2021
- 2 min
Food and Life Lately: March 2021
I’m hoping things are beginning to make us feel better with the prospect of longer and lighter days ahead. Being able to see family and...
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Ann
- Feb 4, 2021
- 2 min
Olive and Auburn: Project Bags
Olive and Auburn knitting project bags are designed to ultimately please the needs of both knitters and crafters. Elegant, stylish and...
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Ann
- Jan 25, 2021
- 2 min
Yorkshires Michelin Stars: 2021
It's really a gloomy time of year and going out to eat is not something we can do at the moment, being in the midst of Lockdown Number 3....
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Ann
- Dec 30, 2020
- 1 min
Winter knits
With the arrival of colder weather, I've been cosying up with my knitting. This December I have being knitting mittens and hopefully they...
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Ann
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
Knitting: Fair Isle
After finding my knitting mojo and recovering from Covid, I thought it should be a good time to be a little reckless and ‘knit’ outside...
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Ann
- Nov 7, 2020
- 2 min
Recovering from Covid-19 virus
Using my brain to write a blog post has been outside of my capability for the last three weeks. Yes, I had a positive test and suffered...
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Ann
- Oct 5, 2020
- 4 min
Beginners Guide to Knitting Needles
Interchangeable, circulars, DPNs, straight, bamboo, steel?????? There are so many options when it comes to needles and as a beginner it...
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Ann
- Sep 11, 2020
- 2 min
Knitting: Every Knitter Deserves a Project Bag
We’ve all been there: you have five minutes to leave the house and you’re frantically scrabbling around for a knitting project you can...
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Ann
- Sep 4, 2020
- 2 min
Why Knitting Should Be Your New Hobby for Autumn
What better time of the year to start a new hobby than right at the beginning of Autumn. We have darker evenings and I don't know about...
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Ann
- Aug 27, 2020
- 3 min
Three Days in Cumbria
My great first staycation in 8 months! It was exciting to take a journey of a couple of hours over the Pennines to one of my favourite...
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Ann
- Aug 18, 2020
- 2 min
Yorkshire Gardens: Breezy Knees Gardens
If you visited this field in 1998, you would have seen a bleak area of potatoes and barley fields that stretched for miles across the...
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Ann
- Jul 31, 2020
- 3 min
Life Lately || 10 Things That Have Made Me Happy
10 Things that have made me happy recently I just realized that I haven’t written one of these posts in over a year. I think it’s because...
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Ann
- Jul 26, 2020
- 3 min
Botanical Beauty: Flor og Fjære
Where the Rainbow Hit Earth - A most beautiful, colourful Norwegian garden, on an island with a white sandy beach and my ultimate garden...
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Ann
- Jun 30, 2020
- 1 min
June in My Yorkshire Garden
Summer has arrived The anticipation in the lead up to summer has been building up for many months. And this year June has been so...
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Ann
- Jun 1, 2020
- 2 min
Don't Miss a Beat
And why, because its World Heart Rhythm Week 2020, an annual awareness week that focuses on detecting arrhythmias (irregular heart...
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Ann
- May 31, 2020
- 1 min
May in My Yorkshire Garden
I do apologise for this rather late May update. I’m sorry that I don’t have an excuse, it’s just that I’ve been busy retreating to my...
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Ann
- May 21, 2020
- 1 min
Botanical Beauty: Bodnant Garden
If you are in the Conwy area of North Wales in the spring, lucky you! This time last year I was so lucky to spend a day strolling around...
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Ann
- May 5, 2020
- 3 min
Botanical Beauty: Jardins de Cap Roig
This time last year, May 2019, I was here in Catalonia, Spain….Jardins de Cap Roig In the northwest corner of the Mediterranean is the...
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Ann
- Apr 27, 2020
- 2 min
What I've Learned During Lockdown
April is almost over, the month of bluebells, it's the symbol of humility, everlasting love and constancy, and lockdown 2020. Well now,...
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Ann
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
April in my Yorkshire Garden
This blog post is oh so late! The month of April seems to be flying by in these very strange times. I feel very fortunate at the moment...
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Ann
- Apr 9, 2020
- 2 min
Strange Coronavirus Days – Reasons To Be Cheerful
I’m very fortunate to have previously been able to work from home and have a home to work from. Unfortunately, my freelance work has...
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Ann
- Feb 15, 2020
- 2 min
Eat The Season: Rhubarb
January got no respect from me! I've been hating it this year. The damp, grey and eternally dark days made me so lethargic, together with...
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Ann
- Jan 28, 2020
- 3 min
A Winter Break in Normandy
Winter can be a wonderful time to visit France especially over the New Year period. January was mild, sunny, wide blue skies with a hint...
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Ann
- Dec 13, 2019
- 2 min
Santa Lucia - A Scandinavian Tradition - Swedish Style
December 13th is Santa Lucia, one of the most cherished celebrations in Scandinavia. Sweden was the first country in the Nordic region to...
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Ann
- Dec 6, 2019
- 1 min
How to Make Dried Orange Christmas Decorations
It’s interesting how certain smells or sounds remind us of specific things, a person, a place or an activity. Orange, for example, is one...
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Ann
- Nov 17, 2019
- 4 min
Whitby: Foodie Tour
Whitby is a place for all seasons complete with dramatic, changing landscapes. It nestles in the iconic Yorkshire heritage coastline...
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Ann
- Oct 3, 2019
- 2 min
Embellish With Relish
I’m a lover…. of food, cook books, and of the place where I grew up, the Lake District. I like a proper cook book as well as downloading...
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Ann
- Aug 27, 2019
- 4 min
The Lake District is Impossibly Beautiful
June is a wonderful time to visit the Cumbrian Lake District, Kendal was my perfect place for a week long birthday celebration. About 10...
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Ann
- Jul 12, 2019
- 2 min
Tiled Hall Cafe in Leeds
The Tiled Hall Café in the Leeds Art Gallery is the perfect setting for a lunch break, morning breakfast or just a quiet space to relax....
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Ann
- Jun 21, 2019
- 2 min
Happy Midsommar in Åland
Today its Midsummer, the longest day of the year, and an especially magical time in the Nordic countries and cause for celebration. The...
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Ann
- May 29, 2019
- 3 min
Life Lately
You may have noticed something of a radio silence here in recent weeks. This was partly for some really nice reasons, and also there is...
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Ann
- Apr 27, 2019
- 1 min
Lotte the Baker in York
Loving all foodie things Scandi, I’m excited to have found Lotte the Baker in York! Lotte has started a small batch organic Scandi bakery...
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Ann
- Apr 12, 2019
- 2 min
Billy Bob's Parlour
The owners of Billy Bob’s have created a 1950’s retro Americana magic place in the Yorkshire Dales. Not quite what you expect to find...
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Ann
- Mar 17, 2019
- 2 min
Three Things I'm Loving This Week
In a week of wind, drizzly rain and Brexit doom, I’m back to tell you about the things that made me smile this week. Ballet I’m always...
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Ann
- Mar 7, 2019
- 2 min
Prashad, 'the' Vegetarian Indian Restaurant
Prashad means blessed food; the Patel’s meaning is that their love passes to you through the offerings; I’ve rarely felt so beatified,...
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Ann
- Feb 16, 2019
- 2 min
Barbakan, a Polish Restaurant in York
Walmgate, one of the oldest streets in York is an interesting jumble of buildings from different periods and now home to innovative and...
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Ann
- Feb 6, 2019
- 2 min
Winter Can Only Mean One Thing - Dry Hands
My hands can certainly appreciate a little help at this time of year. They are always a concern for me in winter so I’ve tried and tested...
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Ann
- Jan 28, 2019
- 3 min
Why You Should Visit the Åland Islands
I must admit, before I revisited Scandinavia last year I had never heard of the Åland Islands. That is the wonderful thing about travel,...
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Ann
- Jan 11, 2019
- 2 min
Staying Positive in January
I know that I am not alone in thinking that January is one of the hardest months of the year to get through. All the festive cheer of the...
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Ann
- Dec 27, 2018
- 3 min
December in the Garden
We had the darkest day of the year on 21st December, with daylight lasting for just a few hours. This winter solstice marks the moment...
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Ann
- Dec 20, 2018
- 2 min
One Summer Day in Stockholm
Stockholm is the city of fourteen islands, the so-called “Venice of the North,” and is the home to one of Europe’s best-preserved old...
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Ann
- Dec 16, 2018
- 3 min
ABC of Winter
It’s that time of year already! We are well into Winter now and almost the end of 2018. I want to make the most of the next couple of...
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