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In my last blog post, I looked at the advantages of making your own mince meat. Having made quite a few jars the only thing left to do was actually use the resulting product in baking. That means mince pies. And lots of them. Problem is, with 19 days still left until Christmas, I have already […]
Didn’t someone say life is a long list of good intentions…failed? Well if they didn’t they should have. You see the thing is last week was full of them (keep up with laundry, go to gym, get an early night, be kind to others, etc etc) but as usual it ended up being another seven […]
Mono-chrome Memories There is an ochre and crimson multi-coloured crinkling carpet under my feet I’m spinning round and round beneath the wind swept trees Almost barren now with just their branches reaching out for the last remnants of winter’s light Arms wide open, hair pulled tightly in bunches, fingers spread to the sky Nose and […]
A very lovely women I met through twitter, Christine Mosler, has just started up a new blog called Musings of a Musler. Where her first blog, Thinly Spread, is about her life as a mother, Musings is about her life as a writer. In a recent post entitled “A Writer in Ten Little Pieces” she […]
I’ve got a tiny secret to tell you. Come closer. Want to know what the best thing about baking cakes is? No, not eating them yourself. Bribing your friends with it. Well maybe bribing is not the right word. More like cajoling. Seducing. Softening. Sweetening up. Yeah that’s a good one. Sweeting them with sugary temptations.
