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National Picnic Week - Sausage Roll Recipes

National Picnic Week - Sausage Roll Recipes

Now if you follow me on Instagram you know I love to bake a good sausage roll. In line with National Picnic Week I am sharing my two favourite sausage roll recipes and I’ll tell you now, they are SO easy to make and taste delicious!  Ingredients: 375g Sausage Meat  375g Ready to use puff pastry  1 Egg (beaten) Salt & Pepper to taste Cheese & Marmite: 100g Mature Cheese grated 1 tsp Marmite (or more if you love it!) Caramelised Onion, Apple & Fennel 1 Red Onion 1 Small Apple (any colour) 1tsp brown sugar 1tsp butter ½ Teaspoon...

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Decadent Daisy Collection The Making Of...

Decadent Daisy Collection The Making Of...

I knew I wanted you lot to be apart of this process, you are the ones who will eventually be having it so there was no point in making something I like but you guys wouldn't! I started out by asking what Summer meant to you - safe to say there was a fair few common themes! 

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Mental Health & The Importance Of Reaching Out

Mental Health & The Importance Of Reaching Out

When I was feeling really low I couldn’t bear to look at my phone, it was a window to a world that I didn’t feel part of. Replying to messages  felt like such an arduous task that I couldn’t face. I didn’t want to lie but who wants to know I spent the last few days in bed? And the longer I didn’t reply the worst I felt about leaving them on read. The dreaded double blue tick.

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10 Things They Don't Tell You About The Countryside...(Part 2)

10 Things They Don't Tell You About The Countryside...(Part 2)

When asking YFC members to describe themselves, I got:

"It's like Scouts or Brownies, just without the knots and badges and you're on a constant bender"

"Young farmers is a place where alcoholics that like tractors, can meet other alcoholics who like tractors, and talk about tractors over a few drinks."

"It’s like a big family of agricultural alcoholics. We always talk about work when we’re not at work. We know how to party and occasionally enter a tug of war."

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10 Things They Don't Tell You About Living In The Countryside... (part 1)

10 Things They Don't Tell You About Living In The Countryside... (part 1)

There is a country uniform and it is defined by the fleece gilet.

Want to spot one of your own? Look for the Schoffel gilet. A fleece you say? Yep that's right, no this isn't just any ordinary fleece, this will set you back £140, and is an instant way of recognising someone who knows the countryside well. They will go with literally anything and everything. Paired with a pair of Le Chameaus and you are good to go. 

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