Since having chickens in the back garden, I have noticed how the recipes that I associate with the colder months use fewer eggs than those definitive summer offerings. My gingerbread recipe uses one egg, while the meringues I make, use three egg whites. Steam puddings which are a family favourite […]
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We have snow!
We have snow. Not lots. It’s already starting to melt into slushy snow, but every now and then, there is the odd, hopeful flutter of little flakes. Covers up the mud nicely. It’s the last day before the children break up for a week. I have two of them home, […]
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Food! Can I get to it? Maybe not. Hang on! Sparrows, that’s MY food! Geronimo! Disclaimer: Bird table suitable for sparrows and small birds only. When a fully grown Cream Legbar cockerel lands on the table it will topple over loudly, breaking abandoned jam jar below and scattering a flock […]
Read moreYarn Along – Knitted blanket garter squares
Wednesday already! Knitting and reading. Its Ginny’s Yarn Along again. After digging around my Charles Dickens books yesterday, I found myself reading one. Hard Times. I haven’t read it for a long time. Its kind of comforting to pick this book up again. Familiar, but so much I have forgotten. […]
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