When you finally realise your dream and open a deli / coffee shop / bakery what is it you are really hoping for?  Time to do lots of baking ?  Loads of manolo-clad ( or ugg-booted, as it’s winter) feet stomping, shuffling and striding over your threshhold?  Someone else to do the washing up? 
All of [...]

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peanuts, oats and chocolate candy…

 
Preheat your oven to 180*C and line a baking sheet with baking parchment.
Cream:

225g granulated sugar
175g brown sugar
225g butter

Add:

2 eggs, lighlty beaten
1Tablespoon vanilla extract

and beat until light and fluffy.
Sift:

300g plain (cake) flour
5 ml bicarbonate of soda

Add to egg mix together with

125g rolled oats
1/2 cup of peanuts

Spoon 1/4 cup of mix onto your [...]

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For 3 days the ocean and the sky have wept.  Not those  great joyous, life giving raindrops hurled at the thirsty African earth, but a slow steady leaching of sorrow, cloaking the whole peninsula in grey depression. 
We seem to be lurching from one awful event to another.  The miners who forfeited their lives to the deep dank [...]

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