CDWM II: Lauren’s dessert

When I go to a restaurant I’m most likely to pick whatever is made of chocolate when it comes to the dessert menu. I occasionally pass this off to myself as research into finding the best chocolate cake, but really it’s just down to the fact that I like chocolate, I don’t like fruit desserts [...]

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NYC: Seaports and bridges

On our penultimate day in New York we made South Street Seaport our first stop in order to buy theatre tickets for the evening. We joined a long queue in the sunshine with everyone else who’d had the same idea. Ticket touts were going up and down the line advertising their wares, assuring everyone that [...]

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CDWM II: Lauren’s main course

This time around I’ve been thinking that it’s just as well I took home the menus after the Come Dine With Me evenings, because it’s taking me so long to get to blogging the meals that I’d never remember the funny names of some of the dishes. Those above though are easy – onion bhajis [...]

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7 Days: Day 7 – Turning out the lights

Turning out the lights after a long day. It started at 5.50am when a dream about needing the loo, going to the loo, but then still needing the loo merged into realising that I was now awake and needing the loo. Only it turned out that that wasn’t actually causing the discomfort. Everyone’s favourite aunt [...]

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7 Days: Day 6 – Ode to a Hobnob

I’ve been eating quite a few Hobnob biscuits recently, having re-discovered their yumminess and habit of being relatively high in fibre for a sweet treat. I mean, come on – 0.8g of fibre in one biscuit? It’s practically a leafy green vegetable!

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Smushy-faced dribble monkeys

As mentioned in my 7 Days post we spent a nice family day on Sunday with the bubbas, John, Sam and Aunty Ann and Uncle Terry. Lily and Anya are still fabulous and are chewing and dribbling on everything they get their hands on, be it toys, muslins, their hands, your hands, or their Mummy’s [...]

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7 Days: Day 5 – Outside in the vegetable patch

Finally it stopped raining and out came the sun so I could go an inspect the vegetable patch for the first time in a few days. On my left are the now rather dilapidated cherry tomatoes and on my right are two of the four pumpkins. The two out of frame are the biggest and [...]

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7 Days: Day 4 – Tumbling toms

These are just some of the lovely cherry tomatoes I’ve picked this summer. The yellow ones aren’t much for flavour, but make good salad/sandwich filling. The red ones on the other hand are fabulously sweet and delicious. I’m pleased to have harvested more than half a kilo so far this year. There are lots more [...]

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