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Shepherds’ Pie
I know it should be called cottage pie if it is beef, and shepherds’ pie if it is mutton – but I have always called it shepherds’ pie with beef so I’m going…
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AliExpress
I buy quite a lot of crafting things (paper, felt, pens, paint etc) and up until now I have largely been getting them from Amazon (yes – I know I should shop locally…
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An Oddball whisky
R has been having a go at buying whisky from an auctioneer. This is apparently a “thing” these days where you bid on individual bottles and crates of the (in my opinion fairly…
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Dunfermline
Several things about Dunfermline a) It is a difficult word to spell – somehow however many times I write it I still get it wrong. b) The first poem I ever learned by…
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Harvest Festival
Today was Harvest Festival – the church was looking very festive. Things have moved on since I was a child – then it was all giant marrows, now it is food for the…
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Harvest home
It is our church harvest festival tomorrow and I made an apple cake with yet more of the garden’s never ending bounty. In total, the Scouts picked over 200kg of apples and took…
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Last mow of the lawn
Definitely colder today, and quite a few leaves are coming off the trees. I want to have a big push next week to “put the garden to bed for the year” – hopefully…
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