I am feeling a great lightness of spirits today. In fact I feel quite joyous. Could it be because I have new skirts to play with? Not at all. That is currently a pleasure deferred. Yesterday was a poor day. We needed to go shopping and are unable to go on Friday. I thought that …
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Rich Fruit Cake
This pathetic looking thing is my recipe notebook that I started when I was at school, taking my A-level in Home Economics: and this is the page with my favourite Christmas Cake recipe on it: Now, I am certain that you are very proud of the rich fruit cakes that oyu make yourself but I …
Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it
One of my recently purchased baking books is The Italian Baker, Revised: The Classic Tastes of the Italian Countryside–Its Breads, Pizza, Focaccia, Cakes, Pastries, and Cookies. I shall be reviewing it soon. One of the things that I have taken from it so far is that the Italians will not waste bread. Bread is Life …
Christmas Picnic
Set of photographs of the dogs at the beach on Dec 25th, 2008. The deep/dark colours are due to my forgetting that I had a polariser fitted. In most cases, I don’t mind at all. There’s something deep and rich and lovely about these images – they remind me in some ways of oil paintings… like they already have the patina of age, somehow – just vague memories already.
Click any image in the post for a larger view.
Well, I’ll be humbuggered
The Safest Pair of Hands in Scotland just made a Special Delivery to our house. A Special Delivery from Santa, or one of his elves, it would seem – because the parcel is marked “Do not open until Xmas.”
It is addressed to me.
So, it would seem that we may not do Christmas, but Santa does.
I have a fair notion of what the parcel may contain, as I recognise a blue bag from Midlothian when I see it…