Oh! You Pretty Things – Cakes, A Yorkshire Brew & Beads

I returned home yesterday full of cake, and with potentially an equally addictive interest – beading. Bojangle Beads in Church Gate, Loughborough, opened up just for the Clandestine Cake Club on Sunday afternoon… Continue reading →

Road Trip – Creative Business Day at The Water Tower

Earlier this month 18 artists, makers and creative business owners travelled via train, taxi and sat nav to Northamptonshire to take part in a Creative Business Day run by my company –  The… Continue reading →

Helen Rhodes – Springtime Open Studio

I popped along to see artist & designer Helen Rhodes in her studio in Rothley, Leicestershire on Sunday afternoon. Helen was holding a Springtime Open Studio in time for Mother’s Day. I followed… Continue reading →

Making Connections – Cakes, Trains & Automobiles.

The Clandestine Cake Club Cookbook was published on the 14th February 2013.  A series of events have been taking place across the UK to celebrate and launch the book. We organised a launch… Continue reading →

Clandestine Cake Club Cookbook – Design, Illustration & Styling

I do enjoy using a well-designed cookbook, as much as I dislike a badly designed one! So I was really hoping that The Clandestine Cake Club Cookbook would fall into the former category.… Continue reading →

Creative Business Workshop at The Water Tower

I’m off to Northamptonshire on the 5th of March to run a Creative Business Day with Pete Mosley.  I’m taking The Refectory Table ‘on the road’ for the day.  Our days for makers,… Continue reading →

Oakley Grange Farm, Café & Delicatessen

It was Saturday. We’d been glued to our various screens for various reasons. A change of scene was required – “Come on Pete, get your coat on, you’re taking me out for a… Continue reading →

The Clandestine Cake Club – A Quick Guide for Businesses

The Clandestine Cake Club is about baking, meeting, sharing and talking about cake. It’s a simple and sociable concept – go along, meet new people, make friends. It’s Clandestine because you don’t find… Continue reading →

Clandestine Cake Club at Chocolate Alchemy

The Loughborough Clandestine Cake Club laughed in the face of January detox diets and weight loss regimes for a night – and spent a very happy evening at Chocolate Alchemy, a welcoming independent shop… Continue reading →

Seasonal Favourite – Mushroom, Stilton & Chestnut Pie

I’ve trawled shelves and the web seeking the original copy of this recipe – thought it was ‘A Delia’ as it emerged around the same time as another Winter family favourite –  Delia’s… Continue reading →