Thank you for all the birthday greetings ( Read more... )

I commented on spikesgirl58's journal that our Christmas baking is mainly cake based. I have made a lot of fruit loaves, gingerbread loaves, and brownies - but I have also made sweeties (mincepie fudge and rum truffles) traybakes - Grasmere Gingerbread, Festive Tiffin, and cookies including white chocolate and cranberry ones and chocolate ones. Here is a ( Read more... )

We celebrated S2C's mid-week birthday today. It was a quiet family gathering D-d and family came, and Lizzy and wee Edie. We had a sort of rolling afternoon tea - here was the table with most of the food on it -


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T.T. finished on Saturday afternoon, and we began our tidy-up at church, finished it after yesterday's service, and I spent yesterday afternoon and evening doing nothing more exciting than sitting in the garden, and doing quiche and salad for tea ( Read more... )

I'm sorry - I've not been here as much as usual recently. Please aim me at anything important/interesting that I have missed. I have been doing some extra shifts in the bookshop, and getting a lot of baking done ready for the TT festival - first full day is Monday ( Read more... )

And now it is the time of the peony...


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D-d and the NYM have just had a short break for the two of them, going somewhere they had always wanted to see - namely Iceland - whilst the children (OK - the teenagers!) went up to their gran and grandad's ( Read more... )

I am making a celebratory cake for my sister and brother in law's 40th wedding anniversary party tomorrow. Their daughters asked if I could do a red velvet cake. It is driving me round the bend ( Read more... )

Thank you for all the lovely birthday greetings and e-cards ( Read more... )

We have had a week of below zero temperatures, occasionally crawling up to 1C or 2C in the sunshine, and flat calm seas as there has been no wind..

This was my car windscreen on Friday morning;


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