My kind of pumpkin patch

Another video from Lee – recorded in a pumpkin field in Norfolk. This is my kind of pumpkin patch. Though even with the extra freezer in the kitchen, I think we would perhaps have trouble with storage.

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Note to self

When trying on a jacket that needs to be altered, do not completely zone out and forget what you’re wearing. For in absent-mindedly scratching an itch you may stab yourself in the face with the pins that you’d forgotten were in the sleeve of the jacket and come close to sticking a pin in your [...]

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Pork noodle balls

This is the recipe for the pork noodle balls I made for my den-warming and have made previously for at least one summer party (which is when I took the photo). The recipe comes from Nigella Lawson’s “Feast”. And has a very funny name. Makes 25-30 75g medium dried egg noodles 250g pork mince 2 [...]

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The den-warming

At the weekend I held a little den-warming party to celebrate the den makeover being finished. I made a variety of finger foods to go with the pizza and tomato and garlic flatbread that I allowed the supermarket to make for me. We had parma, goats cheese and dried fig parcels, pork noodle balls and [...]

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Road trip to Norfolk

Last weekend we all made a big road trip in John’s very big car up to Norfolk to see Lee and Debbie. John and Sam were in the front seats of the Lincoln Navigator, Mum and Dad in the middle row of seats and I was in the back row next to our old freezer [...]

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Indian summer harvest

We had a beautiful Indian summer’s day on Thursday and so I took advantage of the break in rain to dig up my second and final row of potatoes. This row was grown from the seed potato John had given me and was a little more productive than the row that had come from the [...]

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