A couple of weeks ago I wanted to make a Milk Roll. I went to the Mermaid site, as is my wont, only to find that the site has gone. (Have Mermaid gone bust?) I Googled and I found a recipe at www.lavenderandlovage.com, which I duly baked. ETA: the blogger at that address has for some …
Category archives: Dear Diary
Eggs (and shoes) are like buses
When we first bought our eight point of lay pullets, we fed them for months and months without sight of an egg. Eventually our first egg arrived on Boxing Day. Thereafter, the hens went off-lay in early November and the next eggs turned up around Christmas each year. In reality they must have staggered their …
Old Woman Shoes
Pretty shoes are so much a thing of the past that I might almost be persuaded that I had never owned such a thing. I was 40 when arthritis attacked the large joint in my right big toe, since when heels and low cut courts have been impossible to wear. I wear Old Woman shoes. …
The pudding of doom
Our weekend shopping yielded a pack of croissants and the necessary requirement of some strawberry preserve. The croissants we had for breakfast on Sunday were actually pretty awful but the jam was nice, a high fruit content preserve made from a mix of wild and cultivated strawberries. I was pondering the preserve when I realised …
You make me feel like dancing
I mentioned that I wanted to talk about a programme that I found on the BBC’s iPlayer, You Make me Feel Like Dancing. It’s low-budget “reality” TV. Not something I might normally stumble across but I was so taken by the blurb that I had to watch it and find out more. [su_quote]Series following choreographer …
I am soooo sorry
I do apologise. I have no idea what got into me yesterday. Was I very boring? I certainly left myself feeling very exposed… Today I wrote a very long post following on – basically the introspective mood had continued and I had something of an epiphany at 3 am, about examinations of all things! However, …