In a bun dance

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in a spin

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We’re expecting a new arrival here soon. I’m very excited, although no one else seems to be quite so enthusiastic. I’ve bought a new washing machine and it comes tomorrow. That means things will be clean and lovely first time round. In fact, I’m absolutely sure that the boys will be much much more thrilled […]

caesar salad

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Hurray for me – the Yorkshireman ate salad last night. I did have to put some sausage in it, but it was cold and some of it was green so it was technically salad. Although the notion that because it’s salad it must be healthy doesn’t really apply to Caesar salad – parmesan, olive oil, […]

All I can say is ow

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I did the Edinburgh Moonwalk on Saturday night with my sister and my friend. I’d been dreading it and, by the time we got to the end, I understood that it was a perfectly reasonable dread.Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fantastic event and the more we can do to raise money and awareness about […]

smoked makerel pate

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Makerel pate to go with garlic bread out of a packetI am still enamoured of the new food processor K gave me for my 40th birthday which accounts for why most things currently are milled, mashed, grated or juiced. Anyhow, the garlic bread – horrid low fat stuff – was approaching d-day and I really […]

Kitchen sync

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Look, it’s my blog I can do what I like. So I’ve decided to blog about what I cook and eat. OK it is just a self-indulgent food diary with adjectives, but I don’t care. If you don’t like it, blog off somewhere else. The book group I’m in read Nigel Slater’s lovely Toast recently […]

good idea

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We’re going to build an extension. It’ll be fab, all new and tidy. It all started with a bit of bog envy. We really need a downstairs cludgy. There are four of us and some how we all seem to want to go at once and some of us take ages. And.. it would be […]

The final birthday bow

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That’s it – all the birthday fun is over except for scratching the midge bites.It’s been fantastic and I am really chuffed that I have such lovely friends and family. The last round of the oldageathon was a weekend at the Barn in Borrowdale. We used to visit the Barn as kids – my previous […]