Festive crafting

I’ve been busy making little pretties out of salt dough this past little while, with acrylic paint and newspaper spread across my desk where usually my laptop is to be found. I came up with the design for these hanging ornaments a year or so ago and have now finally got out the paints and [...]

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Tomato sauce

We had a pile of tomatoes to deal with and as a variety of parts of them had gone a bit blight-manky, we decided to make tomato sauce from them. We threw them into boiling water and then cold to get their skins off. I burned my knuckle twice on the metal bowl that held [...]

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Running out of titles for harvest posts

More from the garden as I gradually clear away the rows I sowed months ago. The cucumbers are done now and all the blighted tomatoes have been brought in and the plants disposed of. Paper bags full of tomatoes now sit on my window sill – some are a-ok and just need to ripen, others [...]

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Liberties

/a> You see, you watch the weather forecast, hoping for a bit of rain here and there, because that way you don’t have to lug about your watering can, or unwind the hose and then rewind the hose in order that your vegetables do not fall down dead just when you’ve got everyone into the [...]

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2420g vegetables in 2 hours

There was some work to do in the garden today. The tomatoes keep on ripening and needed picking. Some had turned a bit manky instead of turning red though, so they went into the compost. As did the remaining sweetcorn plants, whose last cobs had already been eaten with dinner a few nights before. Gradually [...]

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7 Days: Day 7 – Laughing

Laughing at recorded episodes of The Daily Show. Jon Stewart is my husband. And now I can get digital TV I get to see him in much higher definition than in the online videos I used to watch. It’s good for our marriage. Thanks for another enjoyable week, guys and girls, I’ll have the mosaic [...]

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7 Days: Day 6 – My Thursday

After some consideration I decided to wear my blue jumper today, but then at 1pm when I made my lunch the can of tuna I was opening decided to throw up all over me. So I changed my jumper. At 2pm I went to the hairdresser and got 2 inches lopped off my mane. Unfortunately [...]

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