Katherine asked me how I make it. I don't measure anything, I've just done it often enough to be able to gauge from looking and tasting ( Read more... )

On NYE, Jason and Tracey and offspring were coming to visit at tea time, and then other friends were coming to dinner, and so I wanted to have something home made to go with a cup of tea. I made some peanut butter biscuits, adapted from a recipe my sister gave me years ago, and I rediscovered it last year on a scrap of paper amongst all the boxes ( Read more... )

I've obviously not done a good job of revitalising my 'blog; haven't written anything since October. Mainly I know I need to do more to keep up with people not on Facebook -- I've not really taken to that google+ thing so far ( Read more... )

Two weekends in a row to London. I was up at 5:30 this morning getting ready to drive back to the office, and now I am looking forward to my bed very much. Last weekend was a bit traumatic; we had lunch at Maze Grill (one of Ramsey's) and I got very ill while I was there. I'm pretty sure it was the trout starter, but they assured me since that many ( Read more... )

I've had a weekend of bright autumn sunshine, colourful leaves and baking for a tea party, in my city that looks like this:


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I was trying to describe these hats -
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a new england
B & D Council
C2H5OH
daihatsu copen
eartha kitt
fabia
gado gado
ha ha said the clown
i can't believe it's not butter
jack cable
Kami
l plates p plates
m4 services map
Nancy Spain
o rly
P20
QED
rabbit furries
sadism
tabouleh
UCAS
val mcdermid
wad-pocket
x and y axis
Yesterday television
ziplock

This is the best thing Katherine has sent me today so far.


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I'm not in Oxford. Actually, I'm so tired at the moment that I think I really needed down time at home. It seems ages since I had a whole weekend home alone with nothing much planned. But I do feel like I've been submerged in my head and out of touch with people, and I don't really know how to get myself back into things again ( Read more... )

Ugh. Suddenly I have no spacebar space, apostrophe or paste command. Id order a new keyboard if I was sure it was actually a keyboard problem ( Read more... )