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Garden Today
My Mum who has not been too well asked me to put some pictures of the garden online. Here we go. One of our three ponds with waterlilies just starting to come out…
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Burger Buns
The rolls I normally make are made with a very basic recipe – 500g strong flour to 350ml water. This makes a lovely roll – but it is crispy and quite “rustic” –…
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Another wonderful night sky
The fantastic view from my bedroom window very late at night. It hardly gets dark at the moment which is in general great, but not conducive to sleep as the curtains in my…
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These are pearls…
A few months ago my Mum gave me the pearl necklace my Father (now deceased) gave her for an engagement present in 1963. He bought them in Hendersons jewellers in Glasgow, and 60…
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Back at the fruit farm
Cairnie’s fruit farm opened their gooseberries for picking this week, and seeing as how you can’t reliably buy them in the shops any more, J and I went and did “Pick your own”.…
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Flags and trains
J and I went to the Edwardian Exhibition at the King’s Gallery in Edinburgh yesterday, and followed it up with going round the Palace of Holyrood. The former was pretty good and I…
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A memory of Norfolk
We have a long border around our front lawn. When we moved in it was choked up with foxgloves, daisies and some rather straggly rose bushes which had largely reverted to the wild…
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