This morning I have made some gingerbread biscuits ... I don't make "men", just circular ones.  But hopefully they taste as good as they look ( Read more... )

That was a nice, but busy weekemd ... and somehow I realise I never turned the computer on before I headed off to work ( Read more... )

.... I mean, what happened to the rest of the year ( Read more... )

... Honestly I thought that the patients coming into the hospital ask some very odd questions.  Well this morning i had an even bigger bit of oddity .... I answered the phone to find it was our Switchboard ... and they actually asked me for the phone number of one of the departments!  Huh!!!!   That's the job of switchboard, surely ( Read more... )

This morning I did a short walk, collected my prescription ... and picked up a bottle of milk ( Read more... )

Mum was an amazing cook ... wish I was half as good. However she had a rule about mince pies ... first one was Christmas Day, and all had to be gone by 12th night. Sorry Mum, but I love them, so the first batch are cooling as we speak! Yes, after lunch I made a dozen of them ... and will make some more once these have gone ( Read more... )

Technically it was on Thursday, but it was also 60 years ago tonight that Dr Whos Tardis arrived on Planet Earth for the first time.  We didn't have a TV 60 years ago, however Mum & Dad's closest friends did.  They had a girl my age, and a boy 3 years older ... we used to often go there for Saturday evening tea (& they used to come to us, as well ( Read more... )

I have just got bread out of the bread maker ... and have had a great walk with my friend from work.  It was dry, and cool when we started, but as we walked it got fairly warm ... yes, there were a lot of uphills!  But it was good to see her, and to hear she is doing a lot better than she has been.  Although I did remind her not to head back to ( Read more... )

What a busy morning - had a lovely walk in the sunshine this morning, and then got organised as I am having Tim & Claire over for dinner tonight.  We are having a pork casserole, and I have made some jam tarts, but also bought a roulade ( yes, I cheated ... but why not ( Read more... )

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