Wicked Stepmother's World was born early in 2007 when I organised the first of the workshops that I now run regularly here at Home Farm House in Lincolnshire.

The idea evolved slowly and is the meshing of my past experience in the food and training industries and my new life. When I married six years ago I became stepmother to four fantastic children. Abandoning my single status, urban life, cafe society, a steady income and antipodean summers, I flung myself into a life of married bliss and family life in the rural idyll of northern Lincolnshire.

Wicked Stepmother's World progamme of courses, workshops and demonstrations reflect my interests and my country life.

Before marriage I had cafes in cosmopolitan Sydney.
I arrived in this country to set up Urban Espresso, a school to train people to use commercial espresso machines to become professional baristas.

Nowadays I am growing food rather than serving it. We are far from being self sufficient, but I am keenly interested in the seasonality of what we eat and I design the yearly programme around the season in the kitchen and the garden.

Within the seasonal framework I add workshops and demonstrations on subjects that interest me and about which I want to learn more. Rural crafts and skills, the arts, the body and the soul.

The workshops are half day, full day and in 2008 I have introduced two-day weekend courses.

I keep the numbers small to ensure everyone gets lots of attention. We start the day with delicious coffee and biscuits and break for a leisurely lunch and wine.

Everyone leaves with a new skill or some new knowledge and a goody bag. Tutors and course leaders excel in their field and love what they do. I hope that a day spent at Home Farm will be fun and relaxing as well a instructive.

The 2007 programme included Building a Kitchen Garden, Larger than Life Drawing, Knitting and Crochet, AGA Cookery, Game Cookery, Keeping Chickens and Bees, Willow and Rush Weaving, The Cutting and Serenity Garden as well as Natural Aphrodisiacs, Makeup over 40, The Gift Wrap Guru and Christmas Wreath Making.

2008 sees the introduction of more workshops. I am looking forward to Writing Fiction for Women's Magazines, the Interior Design course, The Potting Shed, Pilates, The Square Foot Garden, Cooking Fish, Pastry Making, Hats on Heads - a millinery workshop, Knife Skills in the Kitchen, The Healing Garden, Making Bread, Winter Curries, Thai Cookery, The Chocolatier, Painting with Watercolours, Building a Living Willow Sculpture and a Topiary Workshop.

Wicked Stepmothers World Shop has a collection of everyday objects and things that I love and which compliment my life and the workshops. There are large creamy cups, a denim apron which looks well in the kitchen and the garden, t-shirt, drawstring, linen bags and a heart shaped, wooden chopping board. Please contact me for more information.