Sally Laker grew up on the Isle of Wight and studied music at Chichester University. In 2016 she made the wedding cake for Gregg Wallace’s marriage to Anna, which was featured in Hello Magazine, along with all the major UK newspapers and even on the TV. Now works for a local business, Interpreting Matters, who help to provide sign language interpreters for deaf adults. She still bakes for family and friends in her spare time and is enjoying having time to explore the beautiful Kent countryside.
We had been talking about visiting Stonehenge for years. It’s something that has always fascinated me and I haven’t been to see it since I was about ten years old. My family come from Wiltshire…
Having been told by a friend of mine, Paula, that she was going to a village in Kent that was haunted, I had to find out more and go and see for myself. Pluckley is…
There’s nothing I love more for brunch or lunch than homemade Eggs Benedict. Yum. There’s definitely something so comforting about eggs and this recipe brings out the full flavour of the eggs and whilst filling,…
Who doesn’t love a sausage roll and what’s better than a lovely homemade one, fresh out of the oven? This is an easy way to make your own delicious sausage rolls. People often imagine the…
My favourite way to start the day is a full English Breakfast or “Fry Up” or “Full Monty” as it’s affectionately called. Whenever we go out for a treat or stay over at a hotel…
I love nothing more than a cooked breakfast and I’m always looking for new and different variations on the “Full English” breakfast. I love walking along Margate seafront and I’ve walked past the bus cafe…
We’d been to Brogdale Farm, Kent, for some of their summer events and had a train ride around the Orchard with the children when they were younger, but we’d never been on a guided Orchard…
We hadn’t been to Mount Ephraim in Kent for a few years and I was reminded just how beautiful the gardens were by Julie Wassmer when she was researching her new book in the Whitstable…
We’d been to the Aisled Barn in Littlebourne, Canterbury, Kent, lots of times for summer and Christmas fayres and also art shows, but I’d never really looked around the empty barn to see how it…
Whitstable Harbour Gin was launched In July 2021, by the landlord Darren Wilton and Justine Setterfield from The Old Neptune pub in Whitstable. I’d heard how good it was and I love to shop local…
I’d seen the promotional photos for this afternoon tea and I absolutely loved the idea of having it all served in a wooden boat. I do love novelty things and all things nautical so this…
Quex Park is a country estate in Birchington which is near Margate in Kent. It’s 250 acres of parkland and gardens and 1500 acres of farmed land. It has Quex House and the Powell-Cotton museum,…
