Down time

Things remain a little flat here and there is little of interest going on in my kitchen. I have been concentrating on catching up with the girls in the back garden —  and today I finally cleared the last egg tray! I did cheat a little and two dozen went into the freezer, in six-egg batches. We …

Plans

I am fairly well stunned. Mr L has the bit between his teeth and is insistent on cooking a meal for my birthday. He’s not a bad cook, but pretty inexperienced overall,  and multi-tasking in the kitchen tends to be a bit beyond his ability. He likes to cook but does become very stressed sometimes. Curry is …

Saturday Morning

A large deposit at the bank this morning added to an already sizeable reserve – and provided my Blip for today. Popped across the road to Lady PO after divesting ourselves of three skiploads, and I posted two letters to the USA  and one to Malaysia, picking up one of my favourite sizes of Really Useful Box …

On shooting oneself in the foot

My new fountain pen arrived in the post this morning. I was very excited – until I realised that none of my cartridges would fit. It is a Lamy pen and takes a proprietary cartridge. My original intention had been to buy my pen from The Writing Desk, who currently package the pen with a …

Dear Diary: May 2nd, 2013

I was up at sparrowfart this morning and it was not a bad day at all, so I took time out to go for a walk to the shop – taking my camera with me. One of the local farmers dumps his rubbish on the foreshore between our house and the sea. Each year the rubbish heap is brightened …

Advise me

I am considering  buying a little camera to keep in the kitchen drawer, for taking pot shots at, er, my pots and things when I am cooking. I find that I do not like getting flour  and dough all over my good cameras. So, advise me – recommend a good affordable compact that will produce no-fuss snapshots of …