Come Dine With … ME!

I hosted our first “Come Dine With Me” evening on Saturday, having spent Friday evening and all Saturday preparing food. We’re not marking each other, but the idea is to impress, to show off (isn’t it always?). Besides the taste of course, presentation is key, so I came up with a pretty table setting, even [...]

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Bare earth. Let me show you it.

Last week I was lying in bed trying to get to sleep as my mind wandered around, thinking about this and that. In March I’d reassured myself that it was ok that I hadn’t done any vegetable patch work yet, as my blog showed that I usually did that in April. There was no need [...]

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Kristina from Duvemåla in London

On Wednesday evening Mum and I went to the Royal Albert Hall to see a concert production of “Kristina“. The musical “Kristina från Duvemåla” was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA and enjoyed great success in Sweden in the mid-90s. The term “musical” does it somewhat of a disservice though – it’s [...]

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Come dine with us (if you dare)

On Wednesday evening Lauren, Helen, Suzy and I gathered for a meal at a Chinese restaurant called Ginseng, where we ate, talked and laughed ourselves silly. We ordered a platter to share between the four of us, which meant we had all kinds of yummy things to eat: ribs, prawn sesame toast, satay chicken, rice, [...]

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Easter cupcakes

Suzy is a good friend. She buys me chocolate for Easter. And this year I for once didn’t forget that she does this and actually thought to do something for her too. This makes me an exceptional friend. You see, this year was the exception to the rule, therefore I am exceptional. These are chocolate [...]

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