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360/365 what’s on your dream dinner party menu?

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  What would you serve to your dinner guests? I’m asking because at Supergran’s ahead of a clan gathering R and A were telling of their plans for a 1970s style do and deliberations over an authentic menu. This lead SG to her cook book shelf for this and other gems. Gems of note include: […]

359/365 escaping cabin fever

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With a pot of turkey stock soup seething on the cooker and the gaps between noisy squabbles decreasing, it was time. Time to get out of the house before there was a serious crime committed. So we went for a walk. Then, because it’s still Christmas, we were off to our first ever drive-in movie. […]

354/365 what I really want for Christmas…

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We took dozens of photos to get the one he was satisfied with. “Shut your eyes. Arm down. Look sleepy. No smiling. Over there, no. There.” He’s very clear about what he wants. Exactly. And I admire his certainty – life would be so simple if the goals were that obvious. For example, the Panther […]

What did I come upstairs for again?

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Note: I wrote this weeks ago and, fittingly, forgot to publish it until now. Today I forgot that the time of an appointment had changed, but I remembered that we ought to get more loo roll. Only by the time I got downstairs to the shopping list on the fridge I had forgotten about the loo roll […]