Festive diet

Breakfast: Coco pops Lunch: Two slices of bread with Jarlsberg cheese and tomato slices in garlic and olive oil, followed by a cranberry and port mincemeat puff. Dinner: Large slice of no cook lemon pie Dinner II at 10.30pm: Tortilla chips and hummus, followed by a mince pie. Well. there’s fruit and veg in all [...]

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7 Days: Day 7 – Baking a cake

Mum and I are making food for the coming festivities – though I took a long break to go and smash up the ice rink that was our drive. The Queen of the Prairie has a glass door unlike the previous oven, so here I am inspecting a delicious porter cake that has just finished [...]

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7 Days: Day 6 – Queen of the Prairie

Who needs a wide angle lens when you have a handle like this on the cooker? I call Mum’s new cooker the Queen of the Prairie after a song from the English version of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’s musical “Kristina från Duvemåla”. For the first Christmas in America Karl Oskar and the children surprise [...]

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7 Days: Day 5 – Making gingerbread

It’s that time of year when calories aren’t meant to be counted, so to go along with all the goodies Mum and I bought at the supermarket today, I’m making gingerbread biscuits. All the food is in, the presents are wrapped and so, with more snow due tomorrow, I feel as though I’m in for [...]

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7 Days: Day 4 – Random tasks

While I attempted to fight off a slightly sore throat I did some random tasks today. The join between the new kitchen and the office is an arch rather than a doorway and the line between the kitchen’s new plaster and the office’s wallpaper needed tidying up. So out came my paintbrush. I rather enjoy [...]

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7 Days: Day 3 – My poinsettia

I did my almost final Christmas shopping today and picked up a couple of poinsettias too – a big one for downstairs and a small one that so far I’m carrying around with me and placing in whichever room i choose to settle for a while. All but a couple of presents are finished and [...]

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7 Days: Day 2 – Bright

This is what I do when snow falls, I sit and stare out of the window at it. Then I turn back into the room and can’t see a damn thing. We didn’t have all that much snow in the latest fall, but it was just enough to make the roads difficult. I’m hoping that [...]

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7 Days: Day 1 – Balls

Here I am cooking yummy pork noodle balls for the Christmas picnic that in the end unfortunately had to be called off. The inches of snow that fell this morning thwarted Lauren and Suzy’s intentions to get here for our traditional picnic by the Christmas tree and though temperatures rose again and the snow was [...]

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