Yummy yummy yummy, I got love in my tummy
Cold weather calls for good solid warming food. A gorgeous tuna bake does the job: pasta, sieved tomatoes, creme fraiche, herbs, tuna and cheese. Delish!
Growing Pains
Recently, I have taken some time out to rekindle my green fingers, after a nasty confidence-bashing experience with my windowsill herb garden and a lot of aphids. I found a little rose plant on its last legs in Ikea in March of this year. It was in a sorry state with no flowers, curled up [...]
Preparation is the key to an easy life
Inspired by Caroline’s post on Early Birds and Night Owls, I had a look at my own habits and patterns and confirmed to myself that I really am an early bird. By 3pm my energy levels have vanished to a point beyond rescue and by 6pm, I can’t construct a sentence that doesn’t involve food. [...]
Weekendus Domesticus
Despite being in the middle of yet more building work due to the house flooding last month, I decided to have a domestic Sunday, or at least as far as is possible with half my kitchen currently residing in the living room. I had a lovely time decanting various bottles of my homemade liqueurs into [...]
Hitting the Bottle …
An acquaintance popped round earlier on this week, bearing as a gift, a bottle of plonk, which has rather inspired the musings for this post. Contrary to its title, this post is less about drinking and more about abstinence, for I personally am not a big drinker. To those who knew me at University, this [...]
A walk on the wild side
It’s been quite a harrowing and highly stressful week for a number of reasons that I can’t really talk about in a public forum such as a blog, but given that it was I decided that today was going to be a bit of a break from the madness of building, painting, decorating and sewing. [...]
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