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This tip from Mrs Hinch blows my mind
Ok, I admit it, I don’t follow Mrs Hinch on the social sphere. I am aware of her only from the merchandise I’ve seen in the shops. However, I did come across one of her books in the second hand place we visited earlier this week (see post from Wednesday). We get 3 books for…
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Baking our own goodies!
Our holiday week continues and we decided we would take some time to bake a little something. After a brief discussion with Dearest Son, who is the main baking taster in the house, we decided to make the sourdough snickerdoodles which I’ve done a couple of times in the past. I use the recipe from…
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Bargain Hunting Once Again!
If I’m honest, I’ve noticed I am struggling a bit more this year with the reduction of daylight hours – even though Autumn is my favourite season and I’ve written several blog posts about it. So, in an attempt to cheer myself up and keep motivated, I’m trying to do ‘nice’ creative things this week,…
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A reward for hard work
I feel I have been working very hard this week so I decided to treat myself at the weekend with a glass of wine….just the one:
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Playing with words
Creation is the reason all the writers keep on breathing. Painting pictures with their words from dramatic to absurd * * * * * * * * * * * S sad C can’t L lovely L life M mouth R really A and O offers I is Y yawn U utterly V vast L…
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What do ‘normal’ people do?
This question popped into my head today as I was standing in my kitchen, blitzing cooked, home-grown pumpkin to a puree. It crossed my mind that the average person in this town doesn’t grow their own pumpkin, and doesn’t therefore, cook the flesh and make puree with it. They certainly don’t do through the process…
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The trials of buying ladies’ undergarments – and a surprise source of good advice
On a recent shopping trip to our local ‘supermarket’, (note there’s no plural there), I noticed the “womens’ clothing” section had a sale on. I rummaged through a few rails of multi-coloured crap I wouldn’t clean my floor with, and found some reasonable looking and priced undies. I was aware my stock was needing replenished…
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An Autumn Walk
I recently took our son for a lovely Autumnal walk around the river, not too far away from where we live. The sun was shining and it wasn’t too cold so I can honestly say I enjoyed every second. There are a few paths you can take beside the river so we did part of…
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Writing
If I could write every day, what on Earth would I say, that would make all the readers come and look my way? Would they want to know my thoughts on the questions they’ve all got? Or would they stick with the authors they’ve already bought? Don’t they wish for new perspective to challenge old…
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WordPress panics and other online disasters!
You’d think I’d have learned by now, but no, I still have to torture myself apparently by trying to ‘fix things’ without really knowing what I’m doing. To celebrate finally getting the domain for the blog all sorted and having ‘my very own website’, I decided a re-vamp of the front page was needed, at…
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Happy #nodigday
In case you forgot or hadn’t seen my previous post – today is No Dig Day!! (see my previous post for more detail about no dig if you don’t already know what it is.).
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No Dig Gardening ~
Did you know November 3rd is No Dig day? To celebrate, I thought I would share with you my recent planting of garlic, onions and shallots – No Dig style. In case you don’t konw what I’m talking about, No Dig (or No Till), is all about a style of gardening wehre the soil is…
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