I first came across these sticky cinnamon indulgences back in 2008 on a long weekend to Sweden to watch the World Rally Championship. Not only did that weekend see Jari-Matti Latvala’s first win in WRC, but also, my first taste of kanelbullar – two milestone moments, you will doubtless agree! Read More
Author: Jenny Blue
Short Walk: Southwater to Sedgwick
Setting off from home on a frosty Sunday afternoon with no particular route in mind, I found myself doing my regular saunter southbound on the Downs Link from Southwater. However, instead of following the usual route of the railway, I deviated off the main drag via a bridleway just past Read More
Around the World in 80 Bakes: Tarte au Citron
Nothing says France like ‘Tarte au Citron’ …and there’s a way the French make it that gives it that certain je ne sais quoi! To my mind (and, more importantly, my taste buds) it’s all down to using French flour (I still have a load that I smuggled over – Read More
High Weald Hike: Slaugham & Staplefield
Kept it nice and easy and very local for the first hike of 2021, venturing just a 15-min drive from Horsham to the High Weald. I parked in Staplefield (more about the village and its famous residents later), just by the cricket pitch, which proved to be a good starting/finishing Read More
Findon, Clapham Woods & The Long Furlong
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve driven the stretch of the A280 known as ‘The Long Furlong’. The single carriageway road cuts through a beautiful valley and is the most direct route connecting the A24 London to Worthing road with routes to the coast and the A27. Read More
Around the World in 80 Bakes: Gâteau Rocamadour
Christmas week and I should be in France visiting Papa Blue. However, there’s this thing called Covid which means that travels are temporarily verboten. So, what to do when I need the taste of the Corrèze? Bake a gâteau aux noix of course! Papa Blue lives in proper walnut country, Read More
Ghost Train to West Grinstead
Murder on the Orient Express, The Ghost Train, The Wheel Spins, 4.50 From Paddington, Strangers on a Train… who doesn’t love a good train mystery!? I certainly do… and what’s more, I’m lucky to have a ghost railway on my doorstep! Yes, my little village, Southwater, once had its own Read More
Harting Down, Kingley Vale & The Old Admiralty Semaphore Line
Fresh from some fantastic hikes of epic distances in the Peak District, I was compelled to push myself even further distance-wise, and devised an ambitious 26km (that’s a shade over 16 miles in old money) perambulation on the South Downs just north of Chichester. A route that would take in Read More
High Peak Hike to a Plane Wreck
Day two of my trip to the Peak District began early. I was out of the hotel before 8 a.m. as I had a sixty minute drive through the glorious Derbyshire Dales to reach High Peak country. My mission today was to find a plane wreck… macabre, I know, but Read More
Eyam: The Original Lockdown Village
Whilst on my travels in the Peak District I made a quick detour via Eyam village a.k.a the ‘Plague Village’, which seemed rather apt a place to make a visit in 2020, annus Covidis. The story goes that, in 1665, the bubonic plague arrived in Eyam from London, via a Read More