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Scrummy granola bars

After a bit of experimentation I’ve decided to record this recipe in case I get knocked down by a bus win the lottery and don’t get to pass on its gorgeousness to the world. I’m never organised enough during…

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Blocked

AKA – August break XXIII I’ve got photographers-block. It’s like writers-block but, you know, with photos instead of words (although I think I’ve got that as well). I’m not sure if I’m in this photo funk because I’m feeling…

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Just call me Keanu

You know that bit in the Matrix when Neo suddenly ‘gets it’. They’ve been banging on and on at him to just ‘look into himself’ and feel it; to know that he is the one, but he can’t quite…

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Life

Sinister?

I think my delight in this poster says more about my dark, dark thoughts than the good intentions of the sign-writing committee of this particular church. I drive past it every day and I wanted to capture it before…

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Apple + Cinnamon Bundt Cake

I’ve always liked the look of a bundt cake; using a fancy tin I imagined would make the plainest and simplest cake look super-special. It turns out that I was spot on! Lidl is a cheap, German supermarket chain…

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twenty ten

special adjective (NOT USUAL)– not ordinary or usual– particularly great or important, or having an extra qualityhttp://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Rather than resolutions I am going to follow the lead of the blogging sisterhood and choose a word to live the year…

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Drive

One minute it’s a bright and cheery afternoon, the whole day spread wide in front of you – the next minute you’re leaving IKEA with a boot full of furniture, kitchen accessories and picture frames you never knew you…

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Disaster

Here’s a little tip for ya. When a recipe calls for plain flour don’t go thinking you can make do with using self-raising flour. If you do, your cripsy, crumbly shortbread will instead resemble stodgy, cakey, play-doh. Instead of…

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Don’t stop dancing or you’ll fall off

Today’s random word is… Fall Because I am British and not American when I think fall I think ‘ouch’ not ‘autumn’. Boring assemblies at school (sat cross-legged on the floor listening to parables and singing hymns) were made all…