This morning we celebrated our Harvest Thanksgiving at church. Originally one of the regular preachers and I were going to do this between us, but he realised he would be off-island, so I did the whole service. Here are the gifts people brought, which will go to Food Bank;


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There is still a lot of colour in the garden.

The lavender is all doing well -


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Today I have been involved in an upcycling project for NYK2 ( Read more... )

Today it snowed! For about 15 -20 minutes, but it very quickly melted. It was very cold all day, though - a day for comfort food. And I wish I had taken a picture of tonight's dinner before I dished it up and we ate it. Not that it was particularly posh - it just turned out really well ( Read more... )

I've lost track - this may be my 100th daily post or that might have been yesterday. So I think I will carry on until I reach pic-a-day 100 which will also be 100 days since we went into total lockdown ( Read more... )

We've done it! 28 days since our last new case of covid-19 and our public health officials have declared that 'local elimination' has been achieved ( Read more... )

I was commenting to just_jenni that cooking with what you have in the house, without just nipping out to buy a missing ingredient, is an interesting challenge. In fact brutti_ma_buoni has started a blog called The Confined Kitchen about cooking in the time of Covid ( Read more... )

I am interested in how people are coping with making meals, with restricted shopping and some ingrediets hard to get ( Read more... )

Today's challenge was Capture your favourite meal in a creative way. You could illustrate the recipe, photograph the ingredients, write a poem that captures the memories - or share the recipe with a friend. It is hard to pick a favourite meal - but I decided that I would illustrate 'Anne's Beef' with a photo I took of it on one occasion, and share ( Read more... )

Today was cold and blustery and made me think of soup. So I used a recipe I hadn't tried before, from my copy of The Lebanese CookbookThis is for a simple Lentil Soup. S2C had what he described as the best lentil soup he had tasted, at a Lebanese restaurant in Coventry, and I wanted to see if this gave similar results. Although it is incredibly ( Read more... )