Summertime and the livin’s easy, Fish are jumpin’, and the cotton is high. Summertime – DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin We arrived back from Norfolk at the weekend, oh how I wish I was still there! It couldn’t have been more perfect, glorious weather (apart from one afternoon of rain), lovely places to visit, early morning [...]
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Doesn’t the sight of a postman (delivery person) heading towards your door with a parcel make you heart beat that little bit faster with excitement? Even more so when you’ve a good idea what is coming and your awaiting eagerly? Well it does for me anyway Wednesday saw the arrival of my lovely new camera, [...]
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I love this time of year; when the garden blooms. I particularly love how my ‘edible’ garden grows though and I thought I’d share a few ‘snaps’ with you Courgettes Peas Various Herbs Many more herbs and vegetables are on the grow so expect to hear much more about my home grown produce in the very near [...]
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Thank you to R.A.D Stainforth Black Dogs for passing a blog award (Premios Dardo) my way! After a little blog research I have managed to find that Premios Dardo translates from Spanish to mean Dart Award in English and that it can really mean one of two things when given to a blogger:T This award [...]
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I’ve been a bit lapse recently with blogging, my culinary adventures have overrun my time to actually blog about them, so to keep appetites whet I’m just leaving you with a few (hopefully) tempting photo’s. Some meals I hope to return to blogging in more detail when I have the time, but, if you see [...]
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Some of you (especially the UK readers) may remember Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s Chicken Out campaign. I wrote about it in depth here. Today I received an email from the campaign team asking me to check if my local member of parliament (MP) has signed up to Early Day Motion (EDM) 581, thereby supporting Chicken Out’s campaign. [...]
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I couldn’t believe my luck the other day when a huge parcel arrived for me; now that’s always a lovely thing to happen I’m sure you’ll all agree; but this was more interesting. On opening the cardboard packaging I found a lovely wooden chest filled to the brim with sweets galore Not just any sweeties [...]
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Woohoo! The new Daring Bakers Kitchen site is now up and running. Such an exciting new venture. Do pop by to have a look, it’s all jazzed up, all razzle, dazzle and there’s a public section alongside the ‘private’ challenge part of the forum, open only to registered members. There’s only one problem, its put [...]
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The lovely Maria (who has an utterly adorable and amazing blog) has awarded me a lovely new blog award; the Adorable Blog Award!!! Yippee! It’s a fair while since I’ve had an award and oh my does it feel good Maria has also cheered me up some and put a big smile on my face, I’ve [...]
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Please take the time to check out the CWA Exeter Crazy Cozies Competition website, and maybe you could also do something to help out too. The Exeter branch of the CWA (Country Women’s Association) are doing something amazing, they’re making tea cozies to raise money for women with breast cancer, something that despite scientific research and medical advances is [...]
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Here’s wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!!! See you in the new year folks. Share this:
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