On my birthday, a few weeks ago, I bought some fancy schmancy fabric from Liberty. My intention was to make a dress using Sewaholic’s Lonsdale pattern, but before I cut into the most expensive fabric I have ever bought, I thought I should do it properly and make a practice dress first so I could […]
Hot hot hot! Of course, when it’s hot, you don’t really want to be cooking heavy meals. This week I received my Riverford Veg Box, and included in the box is usually a recipe using some of the contents of the box. I decided to make it to go with some barbequeing with friends. It […]
News: it’s still summer. It’s still hot. I still can’t really be bothered to cook anything. Still requiring appropriate summerwear, so I made another Sorbetto crossover variation, and updated the blog post with a bit more info on how I did it. It got positive comments! Both at work and at the pub: Successful I […]
Really, it’s too hot to be spending any large amount of time in the kitchen with the oven on… But, I am way overdue taking in my birthday cakes, so I thought I would use up the remains of the peanut butter I bought to make the quadruple layer Peanut Butter and Salted Caramel Billionaire’s […]
This year Mr M and I celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary. Time flies when you’re having fun it seems, and for year 5 the theme of gifts is Wood. *insert inappropriate joke here* A while back I saw a pin on pinterest for a sign made out of an old pallet (you can find plenty […]
Man it has been toasty warm of late here in good old Blighty! It’s almost like it’s what is that time of year called again? Oh yes… Summer. Which has of course been somewhat unpredictable, rainy, and generally not all that summery for the last few years. Ick. Now it has returned, or at least […]
Just a little wee post today. I had a little get together for my birthday yesterday, made a couple of quiches, had the obligatory cheese and pineapple on sticks, all that jazz. Mr M fired up the BBQ, so he could stand around it with other men and cook meat. The sun shone, the blue […]
So, this week was my birthday…. One of my presents off Mr M was this new toy for my camera: But also, Mr M took me to London for a couple of days. On the train. I love travelling by train! I guess this is partly because I have never had to commute by train, […]
While I was at my cousin’s place at the weekend, I made his wife Z an apron out of an old skirt (I had taken Bernie with me specifically for the purpose): She loved it. Especially I think seeing the material actually being used for something, the skirt in question she had made by a […]
So we returned from our weekend away, beautiful sunshine, fabulous family times…. and I have most of this week off! Score! Mr M was however in cake debt with work, whenever it is your birthday… you must bring cake. These days he doesn’t feel that he can just bring a bag of doughnuts like he […]
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