Eat leftover cake at as many meal times as is decent. Continue enjoying high quality bread made by friend: olive, seed, walnut etc. Yum! Leave book boxes and toy boxes accessible for a while longer. Enjoy sitting room in new format; lack energy to put things back as they were. Sit at dining table and …
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Charity begins at home
It’s that post-Christmas time when you are allowed, nay encouraged, to do some thinning of your possessions. Spring may feel far off – it certainly did this morning when I was soaked by hail at the bus stop – but it is clearly never too early for spring cleaning. Charity shops have long been on …
Foody street
Hurrah for a half day on my birthday! I left early today so that I could fulfil a small ambition of mine, and browse the shops on Broughton Street on the way home. Now Broughton Street may be known for various things, but I’d suggest, increasingly, food. It has the long-established RealFoods at the top, …
The monsters are back…
For those who have been waiting for their next fix of sci-fi on TV, there is relief. Even light relief. January saw the return of both “Primeval” and “Torchwood”. As each was new last year, their return is meant to offer both more of the same, and better… Generally, so far, so good. There are …
Soup-er sized cooking
Starting preparations for a joint party with a friend. We have birthdays around the same time, and we have seized on the idea of soup and bagels to feed the multitudes. Jesus had loaves and fishes. We will hopefully have some loaves too, although the fishes have regretfully been left out (smells) in favour of …