Fifteen Bakes

This year I've still managed to fit in a baking session in amongst my studies; it's often just what I need to forget about the everyday and still quench my need to be creative and make something- even better that you can eat it! As well as sticking the recipe, I love to tweak things a bit, and there's been the baked creations from family and friends too. So this year:

1.   Apple cake

2.   Scones   by my Dad

3.   Apricot and yoghurt loaf cake   from Waitrose

4.   Victoria sponge

5.   Chocolate jumbles   adapted from Nigel Slater

6.   Lemon and lime drizzle cake   adapted from Mary Berry

7.   Apricot, honey and pistachio   from Twigg Studio

8.   Hazelnut and chocolate banana bread   adapted from Nigella

9.   Eton mess

10. Orange blossom flapjack   from Honey & Co - The Baking Book

11. Gluten-free chocolate cake   from Doves Farm

12. Vanilla biscuits   from BBC Good Food

13. Birthday Bake Off creations   by my colleagues

14. Cinnamon, cardamon and orange bundt   adapted from Honey & Co - The Baking Book

15. Winter berry pavlova

Fifteen Flowers

Keeping up with this journal of mine has taken a backseat for most of 2015. It has been quite a year, for many reasons good and bad, but I have still been keeping up with snapping away images from everyday life and posting on good ol' Instagram. Here is a selection of fifteen flowers, from gift bouquets to those in our garden, flora in London squares to fields of lavender, from artwork to textiles. From now on, there'll be more of my photos and what I've been getting up to, so stayed tuned!