Ramblings of a Bookworm
Posted in Cookery, Food, Personal, Weekend Cooking on Feb 27th, 2010
I’ve been watching BBC 1’s series The Hairy Bikers – Mums Know Best, which has made me think about my family’s recipes. I have my Mum’s recipe book. She didn’t really need recipes as much of what she cooked was by instinct. Even though the recipes give quantities in pounds and ounces she didn’t use [...]
Posted in Personal on Feb 12th, 2010
When Kay guessed the true answer straight away I thought I’d made this too easy and then I got a little worried when some of you wrote that you think I’m a good liar! Some of the statements were partially true but only one was absolutely true:
1. FALSE – I can’t play the piano at all, never mind [...]
Well, only because Kay at My Random Acts of Reading blog has given me an award that’s known as the Bald Faced Liar…whoops….”Creative Writer” award. Now I have to list up to seven things about myself, six of them lies and one absolutely true.
So, here are seven things about me. Six of them are not quite true, [...]
Lucy has now ventured outside. We kept her in the house after we moved in, as you’re supposed to (the vet said so) and we didn’t have an address tag for her anyway. Then the snow came and she didn’t want to go out. If she had I think she would have been buried in [...]
Posted in Northumberland, Personal on Jan 10th, 2010
Earlier this week we couldn’t get the car out of the drive, so a couple of days ago as the sun was shining we decided to walk to the village shop along the main road about a mile and a half away. I love seeing the trees looking as though they’re covered in royal icing. [...]
Posted in Personal on Jan 9th, 2010
I opened the front door last Wednesday and saw to my surprise the road was full of marching soldiers. I just caught the end of the troops as they marched past and didn’t have time to get my camera. Talking to my neighbour she said they were marching to London – now that is a [...]
I wasn’t going to write anything else about the weather, as it’s getting boring now all that white stuff everywhere and I certainly wasn’t going to post any more snow photos.
But this morning, peering out of the windows to see if by any chance the snow might have gone away I saw this through the [...]
Posted in Family, Wordless Wednesday, walks on Jan 6th, 2010
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Posted in Personal, River Tweed, walks on Jan 5th, 2010
We had a break in the snow this afternoon, the sun came out, the sky was blue so we ventured out for a walk across the road into the fields alongside a wood and then down to the river.
In the garden at the start of our walk
Field edge path
View across the field
We climbed over a [...]
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