El Digby

10/11/2025

Monday morning LIVE Steps

06/11/2025

Thursday's morning Coffee & a chat!☕

05/11/2025

Good morning everyone, this will be Bonnie's first bonfire night, any tips with your pets? Let's share them here. What is yours like with fireworks?
Lizzie used to be really scared. Let's hope that Bonnie isn't!

03/11/2025

Monday's morning LIVE

01/11/2025

🎃❌🎅🏻✅ Have I stayed up after midnight so I can post this asap?!
Share if this is you!🤩 Ps you have to click on the image to read the whole quote for it to make sense!😆

31/10/2025

Posting for no other reason than I don't post many photos of myself these days and as we're off to see Mary Poppins the Musical I thought it was a good opportunity!

But so it's acknowledging the passing of time, how I am flying through this crazy thing called life and that sometimes I forget to stop and look in the mirror! Which is hard as I don't like what I see, that I can't 'make things better with makeup' (not fishing for compliments!) so sticking with mascara and tinted lip balm! Being brave by not filtering this photo! You all know what Iook like anyway I'm LIVE twice a week with no makeup and wet hair!

31/10/2025

31/10/2025

🎃Happy Halloween! Don't think I need to say this is an 80's photo-
Think the hair dates this photo!
Please share your pics from Halloween past or present!

30/10/2025

Thursday's 9am Coffee ☕ & a chat

27/10/2025

For those asking about my new Bonnie safe tree, this is it!
I love it! Has a real wood trunk, isn't too bushy/wide and an tall good for putting decorations on, it needs it's cover over the base but I just needed to see if it would fit in it's intended place!
Bonnie fits underneath and so far isn't interested! ad.
https://amzn.to/47Ego2d

27/10/2025

Monday's morning steps

23/10/2025

Christmas Cake

Ingredients:
680g mixed dried fruit
Soaked in 44ml alcohol (I used brandy)
200g glance cherries
100g almonds (optional)
280g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp mixed spice
Pinch salt
250g butter
250g dark muscovado sugar
Zest of an orange or I used 1tsp orange
227g 4 large eggs
60g treacle or golden syrup
1 tsp almond essence

Method:
Soak fruit for 4 days in the brandy (or until you are ready to make the cake) or do as I did, which was to buy some pre-soaked fruit!

Cream the butter and sugar, add grated zest of orange or extract.

Beat in treacle/syrup, eggs and essence.

Sieve dry ingredients into wet ingredients. (Half flour, mixed spice, baking powder) combine then finish off by adding last half of flour

Put mixture into lined 9” round tin or 8” square, option to wrap outside of tin with brown paper and string to prevent the outside browning too much.

Bake 160c 2 hours then drop to 145c for another hour but keeping checking towards end of this hour as ovens vary.
If you’re baking two loaf tins I have done them for 1 hour at 160c and then turned the oven down 150c but only for an extra 30 minutes.
If following recipe (including nuts) typical 50g slice 200 calories(will be less if omitting nuts)
You will notice from the photos about the cake. Did not spill over despite how full the tin looked! Neither did the paper liner leave lines on the side of the cake. It smells incredible and I can't wait to decorate it!