The mindless rambling of yet another Sophie

I love baking. I love baking alot. Since going to uni, and having to be a somewhat competent cook, I have found experimenting with cooking so much fun. Sometimes I use recipes and sometimes I just wing it which has yielded me varying shades of joy and disaster. Good or bad I find the act of cooking relaxing. Last year I decided I wanted to treat my mum to some home made scones. So off to the Internet I went and found a lot of recipes that just seemed ridiculously complicated. Also where on earth do you find buttermilk?? I tell my flatmate of my plight and her mum gifts me with perhaps the simplest scone recipe in the world. She didn't make this recipe herself I believe she got it from an old Mary Berry cook book. This recipe is so easy and I've made it so many times I know it pretty much by heart. If like my mother you are a fiend for scones I'm afraid to say they will be gone before tomorrow. By the way you don't have to use cherries! I've made them with mixe...

WarHorse play promo picture - Copyright of warhorseonstage.com Unlike many War Horse fans I never read the book as a child. It wasn't until I was 17/18 that I even heard about it and that was because my friends were quoting the film non stop. One of them was beyond excited that she was finally seeing the play. This was in about 2012. It sounded amazing but I didn't watch the film until at least a year later at my friend Jenn's house.  Jenn  is a War Horse fanatic. This girl knows and loves her War Horse and she finally got to see it live herself just a  few weeks ago. To say I was jealous was an understatement, All I had heard was amazing things and here was more proof that it was amazing. Maybe some of you are wondering why there has been a sudden increase in War Horse talk and that's because the play is finally coming to an end after many years. The puppets will be packed away, the horses sent out to the field and the cast will give their final bow and it wi...