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    The Advertisers’ Dream

    Have advertisers broken through the last frontier and invaded dreams like they have our phones, websites, public spaces and schools? Have they acted upon research identifying midlife women as their best market?

  • Joss Whedon works his magic
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    The Avengers

    I loathe superhero movies. All those mind numbing Spiderman films, irksome Batman plots and ridiculous Superman scenarios had turned me off capes and spandex forever. So how do I explain why I’m at the cinema watching The Avengers and enjoying it? The constant nagging of my son is one reason. The clincher was Joss Whedon. [...]

  • Claire’s Spicy Vegetarian Zucchini Slice
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    Claire’s Spicy Vegetarian Zucchini Slice

    Zucchinis don’t have to be the natural enemies of our taste buds. This spicy approach to a stridently green and unashamedly humble vegetable will have you in fits of gastronomic ecstasy.

  • Liberate Your Cooking
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    The Liberated Cook

    I abandoned recipes after too many disappointments.There wasn’t one particular reason for my decision other than a steady accumulation of failures.

  • Contemplate Life from the Garden
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    Midlife Women, Grab a Chair and Blossom

    The culture of fear, promoted by so many ‘experts’, is growing. This big, bad world, is not always so bad.

  • A Pesto Delight
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    Claire’s Vegetarian Pesto Pizza

    There’s no topping this pizza. Quick, simple and delicious – you will eschew takeaway pizzas forever after. You will need about half a cup of pesto dip which you can either make yourself or buy at the supermarket. So,  grab a pre –  made pizza  base from the supermarket and away you go.     Ingredients: 1 ready made pizza base [...]

  • Better than the real thing
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    Vegetarian Sausage Rolls

    Meat eaters enjoy my vegetarian sausage rolls and comment they taste better than the fatty alternative