This Festive Spiced Soda Bread is a Christmassy twist on a classic Irish soda bread. Full of currants, sultanas, raisins, mixed peel and cranberries, it’s flavourful, soft and perfect with a good serving of butter!
Hi everyone, hope you’re having a good week. I’m sharing my final recipe of 2022 today: Festive Spiced Soda Bread. I cannot believe we are almost at the end of 2022 already. This year has flown by, but also been very long??! How does that work!? It’s been intense, stressful, but in other ways amazing.
We got our gorgeous kittens in February. They’ve completed our little family and we couldn’t love them more. Every day with them is so fun, you never know what to expect apart from mischief. Oh, and if they go quiet, they’re up to no good. A bit like toddlers!
I continued my recovery from PCD (blood clots) and, in September, marked one year since I was diagnosed. It has been the hardest recovery of my life, but I think I’m as good as I will ever be now. My health has continued to make doing things difficult in other ways though.
I would love to say I can work full time again and pump out two blog posts every week, but it’s just not attainable at the moment. I’m learning to accept that it’s OK to put yourself first sometimes. I need to put myself first to heal and that’s fine.
The old me would have pushed through and worked non stop, not allowing myself any time to deal with things or rest. However, I know I get stuck in a cycle of agony. My body constantly flaring, my health constantly declining. So, this year I’ve taken care of me. Both mentally and physically. I started therapy, first CBT and now counselling.
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