GBBO Goodbye George – It’s been sweet
What’s been happining in the world of The Great British Bake off? Since I last reported our GBBO goings on, much has happened. We’ve had pastry week, where the contestants had to produce chouxnuts – yep, you guessed it, yet another delicacy nobody...
Food waste – what is the real cost?
Do we know the real cost of the food that the world wastes? Approximately 14% of all fresh fruit and vegetables produced worldwide is lost, between the time it’s harvested and when it reaches the supermarket shelf. Fact. Billions of litres of water are used in...
GBBO – Is Jurgen really Winnie the pooh?
This week saw the Great British Bake Off’s first ever German week, and the show was opened with Noel and Matt, dressed and singing in the style of 80”s German electropop band Kraftwerk. I guess this shows the age demographic the producers of the show are...
Bake off 2021 the story so far……
We’re now heading into week five of this year’s Great British Bake Off and we’ve seen some unlikely faces leave the famous tent already. Namely, the loveable Maggie, who stole everyone’s hearts in week one, with her infectious girly giggle and...
The Great British bake Off is back!
And we’re off! Tuesday saw the first of this year’s Great British Bake Off and, as always, it started with a bang. I’m slightly stumped by the Bake-Off team’s decision to open this year with the 30-year-old Billy-Ray Cyrus song (that nobody under 30 will even...
Celebrity Bake of SU2C final week
Last night saw the final Celebrity Bake off su2C of 2021, opening with Prue appearing to be dressed ready for an appearance in Dee-Lite’s Groove Is In the Heart 1990 video, and Matt Lucas now officially as round as a weeble. The contestants participating this...
Celebrity BAke Off SU2C week 4
This week’s Bake Off tent saw the arrival of 4 new celebrities, all ready to show us their baking skills (or lack of them), and to participate in the nation’s favourite baking show in aid of Channel 4’s Stand Up 2 Cancer charity. Strictly winner and...
Celebrity Bake off su2c 2021 Week 3
We’ve now reached the third and penultimate week of Celebrity Bake Off su2c. The celebrities competing for the coveted star baker pinny this week were Nick Grimshaw, Dizzee Rascal, Reece Shearsmith and Phillipa Perry (more widely known for being the wife of...
Sufc Bake Off Week 2
We’ve already reached week 2 of Celebrity Bake off Stand Up For Cancer and another round of celebrities purporting to have never baked before, eagerly took their places in the tent. This week we saw Professor X himself – James McAvoy, comedy has-been and...
Bake off – It’s back!
With the new series nowhere in sight, last night saw the return of Stand Up To Cancer Celebrity Bake Off, which for most Bake Off fans (like me) will definitely do, while we’re waiting for the real thing. Who knew that geeky Rob Beckett would be good at doing...
UK schools are told not to provide free meals for their students at half-term
Arguments have once again arised when it was found out that the government has told schools not to supply food vouchers, parcels and meals to disadvantaged children over February half-term. Teachers, parents and council leaders expressed their undeniable frustration...
Bake off or bog off?
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