I’m a big fan of recipes that you mix together and bung in the oven while you go and watch ‘Strictly – it takes two’ and this is one such, almost exactly not dissimilar to one from the recent WeightWatchers magazine.
Vague Gnocchi with pumpkin bake recipe
Chopped pumpkin/squash (about the size of one little gnoccho)
several garlic [...]
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Oh another bad day and a bad week..
My OH* has been complaining of various ailments for a week or so. He must have actually been bad coz he went to the doctor which is quite unusual for him. There he failed to tell the doctor any family history which might have been useful as he [...]
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We’ve been away for a week to Aberfeldy in the heart of Scotland: a lovely wee douce* town with great local shops for local people and tourists alike.
More of the holiday later when I’ve uploaded photos, but what happened while we were away… unwanted guests moved in…. MICE.
On our first night back I was lying [...]
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Shabby or chic? I’m quite proud of my chair: £10 ebay, £15 cushion and freebie throw. I have some Laura Ashley fabric to cover the seat cushion with , when I get around to it (when will that day ever dawn?) and then I can use the throw to cover some other piece of past-it [...]
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I’m enjoyong looking at a lot of blogs about homestyle and shabby chic, but are normal people’s houses always that tidy? Maybe they spend less time staring out of their windows and peeling their lips than I do and actually doing housework – ugh. I’m often a bit ashamed if someone drops in unexpectedly and [...]
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What have I put off until today? DS2 has beaver scouts tomorrow for the first time since the 16th of December. The last time he wore his uniform he dribbled ketchup down the front but I didn’t want to wash it until I’d taken the badges off (that I’d sewn on the wrong side) and [...]
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A few things to use up at the moment as the freezer accidently got turned off so might as well use the opportunity to give it a clean. This happened before, when there was a goose in there. It got partially defrosted and them my husband switched the freezer back on and insited it would [...]
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