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| Fleur with here Stonehenge |
I have always been interested in cooking, gardening and creating ever since childhood when I was allowed to roam free in my Grandmother's large garden in England. My memories of towering bean tepees intertwined with green beans and foliage, rows of potatoes, cucumbers in the large greenhouse and a large ancient apple tree that held our tree house in place.
I remember my grandmother spinning wool on the back lawn as tea and yummy cakes where sitting on the old 'Singer' table. In the evening she would sit knitting away at amazing speed and perfection, I still have an Aran jumper of which she created. This was the generation of sustainability and resourcefulness, as 'Nanny Seagrave' was born in the 1920's.
I was always over there since we lived on the same 10 acre property, standing on a chair at the old wooden kitchen table watching 'Nanny Seagrave' cook and allowing me to stir the cake batter, or remove the peas from the pods. The resident turtle that lived in the box under my chair occasionally looking up at the yummy treats being created and the dogs at the door watching encase any extras were coming their way.
My parents and grandparents had pigs, my brother and I would go exploring out the back fields that where long with grass waiting to get cut for hay. We always ended up sitting on the metal pig huts watching the pigs grunt and dig and watching the wild life go by.
It was a child's paradise free to roam, pick blackberries from the bushes when in season, paddle in the small brook in the summer months and eat healthy organic goodies from the garden.
This grass roots up-bringing to when I was 8 years old and moved to New Zealand has inspired me my whole life to cook, garden and create.
I now have a nearly four year old daughter 'Fleur' and I wish to create this dream childhood for here creating, cooking, gardening and living in a sustainable manner next to the sea at Mangawhai Heads, New Zealand.
I run two other successful blogs NZ Health and Nutrition and Superyacht Cuisine as I am studying to become a Clinical Nutritionist and I spent 11 years working on Superyacht's as a chef (my trade) cooking around the world.
