About

Hi there!

I’m Michelle, Wife, Mum and travel enthusiast. My greatest passion is food. That’s eating, cooking and baking! I’m not the greatest writer, so my style may not suit everyone, sorry about that 🤷🏼‍♀️

I’v made several blogs over the years that have come and gone. Pre-pandemic I worked in the city of London and was expecting my first baby and excited about the future. My sourdough starter ‘Fred-dough’ was coming up to 4 years old!

We had travelled consistently (together for 13 years at this point) to places such as The Galapagos (where we got engaged), Sumatra, The Komodo Islands, Tanzania and even Chernobyl in Ukraine! Then lockdown happened. I baked soo much and blogged consistently but shortly after our world caved in.

My baby girl suffered a birth injury in June 2020 and I left my job to be her full time carer. Anxiety and depression set in. The last thing I wanted to do was eat let alone cook. Fred-dough was long forgotten about as my attention was now on my daughters needs for medication and appointments. I spent every hour I could just cuddling her, knowing how poorly she was.

I became pregnant again and had another little girl November 2021. Life was looking more positive. My girls spent 11 magical weeks and a Christmas together before my eldest passed away at 19 months old.

I had zero passion for anything. No desire to cook or travel. I spent months on the sofa with my baby daughter, barely leaving the house. Then my husband surprised me with a long weekend to Paris. A few months later, another weekend in Lisbon. Then we had our first 2 week holiday as a family to Naples and the Amalfi coast. This trip changed my life and my love for travel and food was reignited. I found hope that life could be for living again. More trips followed before a chance glance on Rightmove changed our lives forever and we found our ‘forever’ home.

This blog is a creative outlet for me. I am the worlds worst writer but above all I try. This is where I try and move on a little, a side project from being Mummy. Finding a little piece of me again.

If you can find something to be grateful for then you can find something to look forward to and you carry on.

Do drop me a hello if you have made it this far, I’d love to hear from you!