7 Days: Day 3 – Sowing seeds

Sowing the first seeds of the year for the vegetable patch. This year it’s pretty simple, just cherry tomatoes and pumpkins. We still have a freezer drawer full of pumpkin puree, but after a four year wait, there might just be enough room in the freezer come harvest time for me to grow a few [...]

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7 Days: Day 2 – Chowing down

Some of us use knives and forks, some use chopsticks. Others give up trying to impale the sticky crunchy thing and just use their fingers to eat. This is lunch today with Helen, Lauren and Suzy – a slightly belated birthday lunch for Helen. We followed our Chinese banquet with a trip to a coffee [...]

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7 Days: Day 1 – Clean start

A clean start for 7 Days – though invariably I tend to get these things the wrong way round, showering and then going straight to the garden and getting covered in mud in the garden, or heading to the gym to get all sweaty. Though even with blue skies and the sun shining I spent [...]

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7 Days Winter 2010 Mosaic

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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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