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hello Azelia are you doing your own wedding are have you got caterers. Wish I was getting married.

Congratulations JenJen so please you had a lovely day...and you were lucky with the weather!


There hasn't been anything on Good food channel worth watching. All repeats. In fact on normal tv lately it's been pretty good. We had Rick doing the Far East and Nigel is back on BBC. And then there's that annoying talking person that says bro all the time Jamie. Don't have a problem with him as a person but he always talks in a annoying way either Mockie or now a hoodie with 'bro' every 5mins!


That's my rant on Jamie's talking over with....


I still have a wedding to plan for....it seems far a way at the moment but I know things come around quickly.


I hope JenJen it goes as smoothly as yours! Post a photo or e-mail it to me.

Hello everyone!


Been absent for a while- wedding planning got more hectic than I could ever have imagined! The wedding was this past Saturday, and it was the most perfect day ever- the sun put in a special guest appearance and it was beautifully warm and sunny all day. Still getting used to the idea of calling myself a Mrs!


Haven't had chance to watch Good Food at all recently but v. pleased to hear that Barefoot Contessa is back soon! I've definitely missed it- my recipe repertoire has ground to a halt since she's been off-air!


Hope everyone is well. ladypamala it's good to see you here again!

You lucky man Adrian...dream job!!

Hello everyone...it's been a while since I popped in to see how it was going?

Hi Homelovingirl, don't over do it...don't forget the glass of wine at 6.30pm!

To be perfectly honest I didn't actually know about it until the girls from Stonewall Kitchen phoned and told me as I've been busy sorting out stuff for the shop. I'm like a kid at Christmas at the moment as in about 3 hours I have a large container of goodies arriving from American Airlines with LOADS of new stuff like King Arthur Flour and proper maple sugar etc. I'm so easily pleased!

Hi Adrian, oh that's wonderful, I didn't hear anything about that, but I'm really looking forward to seeing her back on our screens next month. Let's hope she shows us some new exciting recipes and ways to cook! Take care!

Hi All. I didn't know if you guys knew, but Ina won an Emmy for her show at the awards last weekend. She was very happy!

Hi Azelia, how are you, hope you're still out there? I have been so busy with work that I haven't been on recently, however, I see we have some "old faces" back again. We weren't try to intimidate you, only sticking up for Ina and her programmes, AdrianB was kind enough to let us know that Barefoot will be back on the 5th October, can't wait!
Hope all is well with you Azelia

She is probably taking a long deserved rest, maybe Jerry has his boat and they are sailing far away!

I'm back!!!!
Been intimidated by one or two individuals nad decided to fight back.. Hello everyone!! X

Hi I do hope they are new series completely meaning she doesn't just go over old recipes in a new format.

Hey, post the link to your website so I can have a look at your work.

Hi Azelia, are you misssing Ina as well? Adrian has said when Ina will be back so that's something to look forward to! 5th October is the day!!

Its funny how food can actually taste better when someone else does it! You're very lucky your OH cooks.

It's good you're busy, anyone that has work at the moment in the present climate is lucky.

Sounds like you should go ahead and replace it. I guess the manufacturers figure they would be out of a job if they made things to last!!

Hi Azelia, been spending all my time working on ceramic bisque orders that I leave the cooking up to hubby! So far, haven't been poisoned as yet, ha, ha! So it's nice to come inside and smell the aroma of a meal that someone else has cooked for you. Will need to get another hob soon, by the time you take into account the £52 call out fee plus the cost of the problem, plus the vat, I'm as well getting a new one. We were told that it could be the regulator or the plate, one of them was £105 plus vat to fix, so my money's on a new Belling ceramic one, to replace the WP ceramic one. The WP one last 8 years, so maybe that's as long as we can expect it to last these days. Gone are the days when appliances lasted for 10 plus years!

I'm with you on that I had fridge/freezer of the same make and it was very bad the fridge kept freezing my vegetables that were placed at the very back of the fridge!

It's certainly worth spending a little extra for good products, in the end if you buy cheap you'll only end buying again when they go wrong!! False economy!

Any cooking at your end lately?

Hi Azelia, how's ya doin'? The kitchen is still ok, just the hob, I would never buy anything by Whirlpool again! Most of my appliances are Bosch, but have had two bad experiences with W'pool now, never again! Oh dear, the cyber police will remove this now because of what I've said!!

hi homelovingirl

I see how it's gone very quiet around here....

Maybe you should tell your OH that your cooking would be so much easier if you had a new kitchen

Hi Azelia, great to hear that you're back on the message board, it's been kinda quiet recently, but so glad that Adrian has told me the good news about Ina coming back in October. I meant to ask, will it be a new series of programmes, we could certainly do with them, my OH is getting a bit fed up with me saying, this is "such and such" and she's going to do "such and such"!!
Good luck with the kitchen Azelia, we did ours a few years back now and the whole house is in a state whilst you're doing the kitchen. I remember having to wash the dishes in the bath!!
Anyway, my ceramic hob is starting to give me trouble, one large hot plate not working, so guess it will need to be replaced very soon!

Thanks Adrian will look forward to it. All the best to you.

Hi Adrian, many thanks for that information regarding Ina's next series, will look forward to that next month!

Hi Homelovingirl

I've been busy with taking kids to their grandparents in Portugal, went to France with OH on a 4 night bike trip. Came back to rip old kitchen out, trying desperately to put new one in, only to realise it's far more complicated and difficult than either of us anticipated!! because I had to have oversized oven and hob in a shoebox size kitchen!

Then had to collect children from grandparents and we're back... with half of the kitchen contents still on the patio!

But there you go they are worse things....

I've noticed the Contessa is not with us at present

I've also noticed the 'new' series had such few programs in the series?? All the other series seemed to run for weeks and weeks this last one seemed to be over in half the time?!

Hi. FYI - the show will be returning Oct/Nov for about 5 weeks showing at 7.30am, 11.30am and 6pm, so you can get your daily fix again. Get the wine out!

Hi Adrian, ooooooohhh lovely, I won't get any work done today if I trawl through your site! I love the New England look, so will have fun browsing through here!

Thanks Adrian, I've got a note of that before the "cyber police" spring into action! Many thanks

Ha ha. Ok lets try mine then - www.redwoodbay.co.uk