Hello! My name is Gail.  Originally from Ireland, I’ve been resident in London for over a decade now. I spend most of my spare time making, baking, cooking and amassing craft supplies and exploring my adopted home city – particularly around the east end.

Although at first my blog also had crafty pursuits and miscellaneous adventures, it’s pretty much all about food now. Though I’ll always write about anything that interests me, food ranks so high up the list that all I ever seem to talk about now and the craft stuff has gone elsewhere. I love that writing this makes me explore new places (restaurants, food sources) and new recipes all the time. It also helps me to justify the growing pile of cookbooks. Now I just have to swing how to get a KitchenAid into my fairly small kitchen.

‘One Million Gold Stars’ comes from a card that someone gave me, a thank you for work I’d done, just around the time I was setting up my Twitter account. It’s grown from there…

I write and edit professionally elsewhere – for more details, see the ‘Elsewhere‘ page here or visit content-happy.com You can drop me an email on gail dot haslam at gmail dot com.

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