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It is Sunday

Southampton (the football team), by the skin of their teeth have avoided relegation. I am only thankful that I am not too huge a fan of any sport, as I don’t think I could cope with that much stress…

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Contact me

You can contact me by commenting on any of the posts I have written, or of course by sending me an email. Alternatively, you can always give me a poke on Facebook!…

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Boo!

Hello again, remember me? I used to write struff on this blog more than once in a blue-moon! Anyway, here I am, back again. I’ve been fiddling with the style sheets of this blog again. Thing is, when I’m…

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Belated Easter Wishes!

I hope you all had a happy Easter and weren’t troubled by too much snow. We kept the chocolate intake to a minimum (which is still quite a lot) concentrating instead on the presentation – hence the All-Bran* chocolate…

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Two sorts of plot

This is my reading material at the moment – post-war Paris, rife with murder and mystery on the one hand, then advice about my broccoli and onions on the other……

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Cute little bean pots

I love my new little Le Creuset bean pots! They were half the price of all the other coloured ones on Amazon, so I got all four for about £17. They’ll be lovely with some thick beef stew and…

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Blueberry Muffins

If you ever need a killer recipe for blueberry muffins I can totally recommend this one at allrecipes.com. I would suggest not converting the recipe to metric if this is what you normally work in – when I’ve done…

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Cozy tea

Did I ever show you my tea cozy? That’s not a euphanism by the way, I really did make one. I had the book Bend-the-rules Sewing by Amy Karol for Christmas (which I love) and I used the instructions…

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Getting over myself

It’s good to be sitting upright and kind of in control of my facalties again! For the last 36 hours I have been suffering with the dreaded Norovirus, which is NOT pleasant at all. Both ends are affected, usually…

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You’re invited…

You may have noticed a small addition to this website (hint – look to the right). Yes, I have been Etsy crazy for a while now – addicted to browsing through all the wonderful things there, so I have…