by admin | Sep 24, 2014 | My Diary
WI garden group, giant tomatoes and unreliable broadband Had a great day at WI garden group today. I spoke about how to grow watercress, showed some growing plants and gave a few rooted cuttings. Then gave out pieces of one of my very precious Brandywine tomatoes for...
by admin | Jul 22, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, My Diary
Flowers blooming in the garden and wraps made with dough that’s been in the fridge for several days Took a few pictures today of what is in flower in the garden right now.This day lily is a lovely match with the shrub next to it A lacecap hydrangea in its full...
by admin | Jul 21, 2014 | My Diary
Kitchen Plans Edit: How extremely annoying. I posted this last night and WordPress for some reason decided to chop it off right at the beginning, and I can’t access the Revision copies either. So I’ve had to re-write what I could remember. Goodness knows what you...
by admin | Jul 20, 2014 | My Diary
Tissue or handkerchief, which do you prefer? This week, I was cutting out bias strips to edge the quilt my Mum made for me. I was using a double white sheet I got from a charity shop for £1.50. As I was cutting out the strips, I was thinking how soft the fabric was...
by admin | Jul 19, 2014 | My Diary
Off to Wickes for a quote We went to Wickes today to sort out the kitchen. My goodness, what an expensive proposition that is! We have been umming and aahing for weeks over what the layout should be, all rotating around a walk-in corner larder unit. The layout was...
by admin | Jul 18, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Broad bean, pea and mint risotto, 53p Here is the recipe for the risotto we had yesterday. I halved a recipe that was supposed to serve 5-6 as a starter, but half would actually easily serve 4 as a main I found the recipe in the Guardian. 200g broad beans, Asda frozen...
by admin | Jul 17, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Sports day and risotto Phew, what a scorcher! Went to Eastbourne today to see my grand daughter’s sports day. The race she was dreading the most was the balance a bean bag on the head one. But because she hated it, she had practised it a lot and only won it! Her mum...
by admin | Jul 16, 2014 | My Diary, Saving Money
Hair conditioner used as makeup remover I used to wear makeup every day when I went to work in an office, plus heels and huge Pat Butcher earrings. I don’t wear any of those much now. The most I wear in the makeup line is a slick of tinted moisturiser, a teeny bit of...
by admin | Jul 14, 2014 | My Diary
Free groceries arriving in the garden These are some of the Brandywine beefsteak tomatoes in the greenhouse. An old fashioned variety and with a superb flavour These are ordinary tomato size in a variety called Tigerella. They were recommended by a friend for their...
by admin | Jul 13, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Butter bean, pepper and carrot salad, with a lemon juice and coconut dressing, 84p Inspired by yesterday’s salady success, I had another one today. This one was80g dried butter beans, soaked and cooked, Asda Great Scott 375g/£1.18, 25pI think this is the equivalent of...
by admin | Jul 11, 2014 | Lunches, My Diary
A garden visit, youth re-visited and salady musings on the bus I was out all day yesteday, from early until 9:30, and no time to do a post. We caught a coach from Chiddingly, organised by their Horticultural Society. They have an annual outing, on a coach, to two...
by admin | Jul 9, 2014 | My Diary
The garden party this afternoon Had a lovely afternoon at our annual WI garden party. This was our tea table. I had just prepped 7 kilos of strawberries. Took me AGES! The reddy looking scones are our tomato scones, made small, and with some black olives from Approved...
by admin | Jul 8, 2014 | My Diary
Progress today in the kitchen At half past four this afternoon, a builder pal of DP’s and his four labouring lads piled into the house. They hoisted the lintel up into place in a trice. At one point one of the lads, a skinny youngster, looked no more than 17, had the...
by admin | Jul 7, 2014 | My Diary
Some freebie fruit, lucky me Had a fasting day today, so am starving. Really looking forward to breakfast tomorrow. Spent the afternoon at a friends. She has a garden that is big enough for a small holding and asks me round to pick blackcurrants because she doesn’t...
