
We always enjoy Tutton and Young’s annual MADE craft fairs.
The show held in the Mary Ward House in Bloomsbury is the most convenient for us though we traipsed out to Canada Water for their excellent show in March. Perhaps one year we’ll go to Brighton for their show there and we look forward to their fair in Marylebone this October.

Now that Josh and I are 87 and 85 respectively, over the years we’ve accumulated so many ‘things’ that it’s hard to find something to buy. Our four children are near to their fifties too so they’re in a similar position.

Our son Simon and his wife were coming for tea before visiting the Hockney Exhibition at Tate Britain. Amy likes a generous cup ,so we were delighted to find these delightful mugs by Mexican-born Iris de la Torre.
I got up at dawn and made this delicious Raspberry and Hazelnut cake with a recipe from a John Lewis publication. This cake is a family favourite. In there’s any left over it freezes well!!
Recipe
Bake 160°C 40-50 minutes
Grease and line the bottom of a small (non-stick) loaf tin
50gm light brown sugar
100gm caster sugar
175gm margarine/ butter
2 lightly beaten eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 tablespoon milk
150gm self-raising flour
100gm skinned hazelnuts coarsely ground – reserve 1 tab of larger pieces to scatter on top
100gm raspberries
Cream the sugars with the margarine/ butter
Add the nuts to the flour
Slowly add eggs, milk, vanilla essence, flour and nuts
Gently stir in the raspberries
Put into the loaf tin, level the surface and scatter with the reserved nuts
Bake 160°C 40-50 minutes
Beautiful designs on the mugs, which remind me of some Finnish spermatic designs from the sixties or seventies. Cake looks lovely too!
Yes – very simple but very effective
I can smell the cake.
tastes good too!!