If you have been watching Channel 4 recently, you might have noticed Honda's beautiful mini-documentaries starring real-life customers who use their Honda products in unique ways.

Led by advertising agency Weiden + Kennedy, the first film Alpaca  farming features Philippa, a breeder in Oxfordshire, who tends to the animals on her farm using her trusty Honda ATV.  The films, of which there will be four in total, highlight owner’s warm and sometimes quirky personal experiences of using Honda products either for fun or as a necessary part of their daily livelihood.  They are being shown as part of Honda’s sponsorship of Channel 4 documentaries with the campaign running on screens and online throughout 2011.

You can view the films again in all their glory at their amazing online hub here and discover Honda's favourite stories or share your own tales for a chance to appear on the box yourself. Just upload details of how you use your Honda product and the favourite example will be turned into the final mini-documentary and turned into idents for TV.

Sadly I don't drive, but if I did and had a Honda ATV, I would use it to bring vintage mobile teas to the remotest of areas.  I would roll up at 3pm laden with beautiful china, sandwiches, scones and cakes spark up my Honda generator, pop on the kettle and provide traditional afternoon treats to surprised hikers.  After all, it’s good to dream a little, isn't it?

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You may have caught Cookery School on a weekday afternoon (2.05pm) on Channel Four.  In case you haven't Cookery School is a daily cookery competition which aims to transform ordinary cooks into extraordinary ones.  Each week the show follows six home cooks from around the country, each fighting it out to achieve culinary success and a place in the finals. They are tutored by Richard Corrigan, the talented Michelin-starred chef  while cookery presenter and writer Gizzi Erskine (from Channel 4’s Cook Yourself Thin) joins in the mentoring and judging.

To accompany the programme is the eagerly awaited Cookery School book which includes all the recipes from the series, over 100 recipes and skills in total.  Dormouse were lucky enough to receive a copy of this lovely book to try out. It is a learn to cook book for cooks of all levels with step-by-step photographs to teach the main techniques needed to master the dishes, in fact it's a bit like having Richard himself helping you out in your own kitchen. Cookery School is divided into four main easy to follow chapters starters, fish, meat, and puddings so there's something for every occasion.

The book also looks lovely, with every recipe is accompanied with mouthwateringly delicious colour images which makes you eager to have a go yourself.  And... so we did, in honour of Shrove Tuesday tomorrow we made some gorgeous pancakes and here's the recipe so you can have a go yourself too ...


Dutch apple pancakes with cinnamon and clove sugar (makes 2)


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We found the instructions really simple and clear and for the first time ever we actually managed to turn a pancake!  The end result was greeted with lots of ooohs and ahhs and was greedily gobbled up in no time! Success and no one was any of the wiser that we had, had a bit of help from a friend... until now that is! 


Recipe extracted from 'Cookery School', brought to you by Channel 4 with recipes by Richard Corrigan. Published on the 3rd March (Penguin HB, £20)


















We were sent this book  free of charge to review.