Food & Drink
Roasted potato salad
The trusty Potato Salad, a staple at barbeques and picnics across the land. It’s the comfort food of the summer months. There is something knowingly homely about a good Potato Salad. But lets face it, sometimes you can overdose on weekend after weeke...
Lemon sandwich cake
For a sweet, zingy and zesty cake, you don’t have to look much further then the mighty lemon sandwich ca...
Rose infused turkish delight vodka
Whilst we’ve infused a lot of vodka (hic!) here on The High Tea Cast, we are about to take a rather diff...
Culture
Girl, on film
The first time my husband took me to the cinema was to watch Days Of Thunder (I’m showing my age now). I only agreed so that I could drool over Tom Cruise. I spent most of the film trying to work out what NASCAR stood for and wondering why it felt ve...
It’s a London thing – a guide to 24 hours in The Smoke
London, the Big Smoke, capital city – whatever you choose to call it. With so many streets, cafes, shop...
The ultimate guide for a country girl in the big city
I’m very much a country girl, having grown up in the depths of Suffolk amongst the rolling fields, fores...
Relationships
Is the dirty weekend over?
The dirty weekend or night away is quite a cliche when it comes to ideas for spicing up one’s sex life. It seems women’s magazines are always suggesting we bonk in the kitchen, try some light spanking and give the kids to granny so we can drive off i...
Stand by your man? Modern day fidelity
We all have guilty pleasures in life when it comes to forms of entertainment – from watching a flea circ...
High school never ends
“The whole damn world is just as obsessed with who’s the best dressed and who’s having sex.&...
How to survive as a family
They say that the family who plays together, stays together. Or something. And seeing as though we have mana...
Health
Make It Happen With Boots – the health Twitter chat round up
You’ll probably know that last week we were co-hosts, along with the brilliant Beauty and The Dirt of the #bootsmakeithappen health Twitter party with Boots which lots of you got involved with (that’s right, we saw you all tweet...
How to do veggie right
It’s National Vegetarian Week and all over the country people will be finding out more about the benefit...
My vegetarian journey
My name is Hollie-Anne and I’m a vegetarian. I still find it weird saying that to friends, family or waitresse...
Homes
Getting into gardening
If you had told me several years ago that I would fall in love with gardening, I would never have believed you. It just wasn’t something I had any interest in whatsoever, nor did I know anyone who did. I had no inclination towards any aspect of it ...
What to do now the new financial year is here
It’s a new financial year and just as reviewing your life in January is almost normal, it’s time t...
All that glitters is not gold
When my children were younger they burst forth from their classroom at the end of the day, waving indeterminab...
