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Tonight, I made cream!

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

From 200ml milk (11p) and 175g butter (35p), I made 400ml cream (which would cost 70p). But for me, that’s not the point. The point is, I often find I want some cream for a recipe and don’t have any, but we normaly do have milk and butter!
Nice texture, tastes a bit buttery! I’ll use […]

Today, I made Elderberry Jam

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

What a domestic God I am.
Well, I couldn’t sit there and watch the elderberries just drop off the tree out the front, and I’d been meaning to do something with them for ages.
So this morning, while Sophie slept before church, I picked the berries and stripped them from their stalks with a fork.
And this afternoon, […]

Year Of Living Generously - Get Involved

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

If any of you have heard Andrea and I rabitting on about a Year Of Living Generously and thought that it sounded like an interesting thing to be doing. Why not get involved. Now is the time to Apply to join YOLG because another year is kicking off in October.
Come on - give it a […]

Sophie’s walking!

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Sophie has taken her first few steps this week and really got in to the whole walking thing this afternoon. Today she stood her self up in the middle of the lawn and walked about 3 metres!!
I’ve uploaded a load of photos to the 9-12 months gallery and 1-2 year gallery (including a 6 second […]

Stump Top Table

Sunday, April 10th, 2005

I’ve been wanting to make this almost since we moved in to this house.
Finally, today, with a little help and inspiration from my mate Martin, we got it made.
We’ve had this stump in the garden since the dead tree got logged. We’ve also had a couple of sections of a bigger tree from our friends […]