Like most people cancer has touched my life and my family and so I am very proud to say that I am now supporting Macmillian Cancer Support. This year marks 100 years since the charity was set up and with that in mind Macmillan want to make this years ‘Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning’ the biggest yet, and I really want to encourage you all to get involved. Last years event raised an amazing £8 million and hopefully this year will be even better.
Macmillan do an amazing job in providing emotional, practical, medical and financial support to those affected by cancer but they need your help to continue there work.
I hope as many of you as possible will attend or hold a Coffee Morning to help raise money, it involves cake and is for a brilliant cause a no brainer surely. There are loads of recipes on here and in the book that you can use, why not make a batch of cookies for a coffee morning at work? They’re easy and everyone loves a cookie. Or how about the lemon yogurt and cherry cake, such an easy recipe but perfect for a coffee morning. If you cant attend or hold a coffee morning you can also support the charity by popping into M+S cafes and looking out for some special Macmillan products.
To encourage you more I have a couple of my books to giveaway. To be in with a chance to win a signed copy just leave a comment below telling me what your favourite cookie is (open to UK residents only)
Please sign up for a coffee morning at macmillan.org/coffee or call 08450701315
On a recent visit to my boyfriend’s parents what was going to be a lovely relaxed weekend ended up as a full on fruit foraging event. Whilst enjoying a barbecue in the garden I wandered down to the bottom of the garden and found a tree absolutely bursting with damsons, a relation to plums. My first thought was to make damson vodka but a second discovery of sloe berries made me to decide to turn the damsons into a simple but delicious jam, but I’ll be back for the sloes – they will definitely end up as vodka! 
© Edd Kimber