My new Milk Roll tin arrived today. I could not wait to try it out, and immediately washed and dried it, oiled it, and set some bread to knead in the Kenwood (my back is misbehaving this week) The mould is manufactured by Mermaid and they have a Milk Roll recipe on their site. This …
Quick Tip: The Best Camera is the One You Have With You
No arguments from me on the basic premise and I try to have a camera with me as often as possible. The whole Phoneography Month thing is getting me down though... can I be the only person left on the planet who despises the whole mobile phone culture and refuses to carry one? I want …
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Lilliputian
Daily Prompt: Perspective Write about the last disagreement you had with a friend or family member — from their perspective. I don't do disagreements. I had that kind of upbringing that dictates peace-in-the-home at any cost. We were never allowed dissent as children; were not permitted to dispute with our parents or to argue between ourselves. …
Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. Bonus Post
I enjoyed yesterday's challenge post. While I was working out what I wanted to do I came across some more photographs that I think I might enjoy revisiting, so here is a bonus post that continues my theme of strangers and friends. Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction For this challenge, we want to …
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Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. Shine A Light
Weekly Writing Challenge: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction For this challenge, we want to see a photo of someone looking truly happy. Not “I’m-smiling-for-this-photo” happy, but really, deeply, twinkle-in-the-eyes happy. When we’re smiling a genuine smile, our whole faces get involved — our whole bodies, for that matter. There’s a light in our eyes. We look relaxed; there’s …
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The S-sense of it
Daily Prompt: Twenty-Five There are 26 letters in the English language, and we need every single one of them. Want proof? Choose a letter and write a blog post without using it. (Feeling really brave? Make it a vowel!) (wordle) Today we are invited to write a lipogram: a kind of limited writing or word game …