• Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats : 29/05/2015

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    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week in England and Australia. Here’s five of our favourites! 1. Helen made these delicious, gooey blondie on the cattle station, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia this week. Find out what life’s like on one and also […]

  • Fareham
  • Skylark Golf & Country Club, Whiteley

    My husband Geoff was looking for places to play golf for his work’s golf society and came across Skylark Golf & Country Club at Whiteley, which used to be named Quindell. As you enter the estate – which is not far from Whiteley village – you pass a few very big houses, all quite grand with grounds […]

  • Portsmouth
  • Pie & Vinyl Record Cafe, Southsea.

    Mr Fitzpatricks, Pie & Vinyl, Southsea, Castle Road, Sarsparilla, All About Tea, cupcake, courgette & banana cake, Buckwells of Southsea, Pieminister, Heidi, curry pie

    We thought we’d try somewhere different this week and it’s a place I’ve been meaning to go to for a while now. As soon as you walk in to Pie & Vinyl in Castle Road, Southsea you get that cosy ‘at home’ feeling. It has an eclectic mix of almost everything, with a mishmash of old-fashioned chairs, cutlery […]

  • Rest of Hampshire
  • 19 Fourteas Tearoom – no rations here

    A little bell rings above the door as you enter the 19 Fourteas Tearoom in Havant. It has a cosy feeling as if being at home or in someone’s front room, but of course in another era. The staff are dressed in 1940‘s style with one wearing a headscarf with a roller peeking out from underneath. They […]