As a mother, the sound of nothing instantly sets off alarm bells. It is not reassuring. There is a moment when you stop and listen and realise that it is not noisy enough. Hey oy. What is happening? OK, quick head count. Right, the girls are looking under bushes for […]
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Mountain of Meringue
The hens have now started to lay a decent number of eggs and the sun has been shining, so it felt like a good day to make my first batch of ice cream. As I only use the yolks in ice cream, I whisked up the whites to make meringues. […]
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Today, while I was hanging up the washing, the girls got excited and started shouting and calling me. Fearing a disaster, I dropped my washing and ran round to see what had happened. I won’t tell you what images were going through my mind, but it was not pretty and […]
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On our walks home from school, we are enjoying the changes in the hedgerows along our lane. There are clumps of snowdrops, which are fun to spot. The locations of these clumps, are mystifying. Did a bird or small animal carry them there? When the hedge was planted, were they […]
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