22/30: CDWM II: My main course

Having practised the quesadillas in advance I knew I needed to put more filling between the two tortillas. More constipation cheese for everybody! I’d done a fair amount of preparation during the day, chopping, grating and crumbling and so when it came to constructing the dishes, I just had boxes full of things to sprinkle [...]

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21/30: Avocado update

The length of my avocado’s winkle is now reasonably obscene and as such, one’s eyes should be averted. There are things afoot in the middle of the stone now though, with a future shoot beginning to show.

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20/30: 7 Days Autumn 2011 Mosaic

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19/30: CDWM II: My starter

Having already told you a little about the preparation I did for my Come Dine With Me evening, you know that I was getting ready for a Mexican evening. And that is why, when my guests turned up, I answered the door to them wearing my embroidered top from Ecuador and one of the four [...]

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18/30: Flying across Germany and Austria

Flying alone to Salzburg meant another flight where I was glued to the window, taking aerial photos of what I could when we were low enough and not covered in woolly clouds. There was nobody else in my row, so I felt no guilt about hogging the window the way I did, enjoying as always [...]

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17/30: This year’s pumpkins

I was able to grow pumpkins again this year – and when I say “able”, I mean that we’d made a small dent on the huge pile of pumpkin previously stored in the freezer, so there would be room for what I grew. As it worked out, we didn’t have the best of summers, so [...]

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16/30: Come Dine With Me preparation

I knew what kind of food I wanted to serve very soon after we set the dates for our second round of Come Dine With Me. The trouble was that as I was to be the last evening, months and months in the future, there wasn’t much point in using all that time to prepare, [...]

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15/30: Birthday bulb

Well, I guess it’s not bad going if it took me until halfway through the month of posting every day before I had a half past eleven “oh crap, I’ve not blogged anything yet” run-on sentence moment. I’ve been stuck in front of the computer all day, doing various things and then warring with some [...]

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