gathering it all together
Shirley Conran once famously stated that life is too short to stuff a mushroom. What rot. I am here to tell her that the effort taken to pack, for instance, some tasty herb-laden garlic butter into those little white buttons is time well spent. However, if time is short, pick a larger mushroom and the effort …
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I took a trip to town yesterday. Gill had invited me to join her on Monday when she went to Kirkwall and Jennifer had asked me to go with her on Tuesday. I checked the weather and added in the factor that Tuesday was likely to offer more fresh foods on the shop shelves. So, …
Today lunch is organised such that there is no prep to do before we eat. I have beans and bacon baking in the oven, alongside some jacket potatoes. All we have to do is to get it out and eat it. That being so, should leave me sufficient time to ready myself to go out …
Today’s edges are just a little tinged with sadness memories. When Suzie was still with us, she loved to chase Frisbee. We would buy Frisbees for her by the dozen as they either took flight into the sea, were lost in the barley next door, or simply wore out. When she died, we had a …
I have been feeling low but I am tackling matters and hope to be more cheery soon
The weekend continued on the theme of simple pleasures, with a puzzling session in bed on Friday evening, limbering up in readiness for Monday’s SUMS Puzzle Hunt. We printed off a crossword from the Guardian and a few of the Puzzlebomb sheets, poured a glass of wine apiece and got stuck in. One of the …
