We have another full week before the school term starts and I intend to enjoy it. All the back-to-school shopping has been ticked off. The last school shoes and trousers were sourced yesterday. I still have name tapes to sew into new clothes, but that’s no hardship as I like […]
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Oh dampers!
I’ve been experimenting with different pizza bases. My family loves pizza, but I am very fussy when it comes to buying them so I don’t serve it as often as they would like. For me the base has to be thin, the toppings need to be made of the best […]
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I’ve finally figured it out. A path in woods is but a suggestion, to children. It may lead somewhere interesting, but so might a path made by a deer through the undergrowth. The chance to walk along a fallen tree trunk, will always be preferable to a well marked track. […]
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One of our favourite outings, as a family, is to head down the Somerset Levels to one of the nature reserves. Binoculars at the ready. Last weekend, we visited two: Shapwick and Grey Lake. At Shapwick, we saw king fishers, bitterns, great egrets, black winged stilts, lapwings……the list goes on. […]
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