Have you all been out and about, enjoying the sunshine? I have. Lunch with friends in a riverside restaurant then back home and straight out, into the garden, to do battle with the rapidly growing...
If you are feeling a bit down and melancholy and want songs to match your mood - what are you "go to" songs either to cheer you up or to help you cry?...
Filled with hollandaise sauce, chunky chips, and peas..that's what we had tonight. Tomorrow will be a butter chicken curry with bhajees, samosas and other bits and pieces, and of course garlic and...
Lately I have become somewhat addicted to (Sheep's Milk) Feta.I realise that it's not to everyone's taste,but I could live on (any) cheese. Do you like cheese (some people loathe it) and if so what is...
We don't often eat take-away or fast food but on occasions, when we do, we eat Subway or McDonalds or the good old fish and chips, burger king as a last resort. Would never eat KFC So your options...
I went to a lovely farm shop at the weekend and found a humongous cauliflower that I couldn't say no to! Tonight's dinner is therefore, cauliflower cheese (which I'll make from scratch)... but what I...
Today's the day!!! Our beautiful little girl, Phoebe, finally arrives at her forever home. We're putting a chicken in the slow cooker so that the whole house smells of chicken when she arrives home....
I've have been going to some girls nights recently where we play lots of charade type games and have a few drinks, I find them really good fun and it is my turn to host my first girls night in next...
I went to supermarket at sparrowfart this morning. I had three items and wanted to carry them rather than bothering getting a shopping bag from my handbag. No, can't do that have to put my shopping...
I'm off to Rome soon, and although I have travelled in other countries as a lone pensioner without worries, there seems to be a lot of mention of bag- snatchers in guide books about Rome. Should I be...
This is probably a daft question, but I was wondering if you are meant to peel the thin skin off a chorizo. I made paella today and thought I should peel the chorizo, but it went a bit mushy round the...
That's what we're having this evening, along with roasted onions and peppers, and steamed mini corn on the cobs and sugar snap peas. It's been a lovely day and I'm looking forward to our evening meal...
Having reached the outside world ( we are VERY rural), and braved an enormous Tesco;we came away clutching a tin of Tesco own brand mushy peas(20p a tin)I will let you know how we get on with them,...
Late afternoon saw us in the summerhouse sipping first a Moscow mule..which is delicious..followed by a dark and stormy, recommended by a friend, which is a Moscow mule made with dark rum instead of...
What do you have with yours, if you have them? They were on offer in Costco and given our family Swedish connection, and the fact we've never had them, I'm going to give them a go this week. I'm going...