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By Popular Demand
Boiled fruit cake. I know how unattractive that sounds, but trust me. This recipe comes from Josceline Dimbleby, A Taste of Dreams, but I have altered it a bit, so feel free! Heat oven to 350 degrees...
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A Little Light Chaos
You see these dogs? They are laughing their heads off. The one on the right is Wabi, and the one on the left is Sabi, and their job – they volunteered – is to stress-test my linens, and indeed, me....
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Back to the Land
How time passes! I have just had a pleasant morning harvesting dill seed, weeding, and cutting my vine trimmings ready for the fire, about as domesticated as it can get. It has been so dry I have been...
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English Digestive Biscuit Recipe
Hallelujah, I can now post the photos which are a basic human blogging right, and late Friday evening I had to do something which wasn’t work, so I made these addictive biscuits with the half-brain...
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The Bedding Plant
I have’t been idle but I have’t been blogging! No point in yammering away endlessly is there. This morning I woke to this article by Michelle Slatalla. Remodelista and Gardenista are my favorite...
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Becoming a Spinster
Moosh is shedding: this is the amount of fluff I retrieved from him in one day. I think I should learn to spin…
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More Biscuits
When the going gets tough, the tough make biscuits – this time I was trying to reproduce Duchy of Cornwall Stem Ginger Biscuits, and I succeeded, deliciously. Recipe will follow, this is just to let...
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Stem Ginger Biscuit Recipe
Toss into a food processor: 4 oz wholemeal flour (1 cup) 4 oz oats (1 cup) two tablespoon demerara sugar 1/2 teaspoon each salt and bicarbonate of soda juice of a lemon 3 oz butter Mix to crumb...
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Color-Blocked Kitchen
My love affair with black and with colour-blocking continues: kitchen too! I should have tidied away the broom. Or painted it black. Counters, kick and small appliances were always black, but now lower...
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Adult Peanut Butter Cookies
Even my peanut butter cookies have gone over to the dark side. Peanut butter cookies are essential Americana, but these are slightly less sweet, and the molasses adds a sombre note. 1/2 cup sugar...
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Waste Not, Want Not, I Always Say
MrsNewlands was a friend of my mother’s, an older woman who lived across from the church in a fascinating old house, four-square and ordinary in a pretty garden, but untouched since heaven knows when....
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This is the perfect way to spend Saturday morning – coffee, Fauré’s Requiem, and seven more green leaves and stems to go on the little jacket I am embroidering for Mila. I knitted it in summer, and...
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Best cure for pettiness= gardening. So, after a miserable contemplation of broken fridge, steaming car and general falling apart, I went outside with string and scissors and finally tied up all my...
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