Posted in Current Affairs, Family Life on Jun 23rd, 2010
I spent the longest day at a trade show which really does make it the longest day. When I got home Milla insisted we make our sun to celebrate the solstice. Milla informs me it looks more like a star and so got a short explanation on stars, suns and distance. Belated Solstice blessings to [...]
Posted in Family Life, Making on Jun 20th, 2010
Recently Milla has started to search out ribbons from my sewing box. She has developed a liking for having a bow tied on her head. Today she picked out the ribbon Saints & Pinners use to wrap their yummy fabric in. It went very well with the dress I made for her birthday and I [...]
Posted in Food on Jun 17th, 2010
I love lazy sunny afternoons. The days stretch out and come bedtime we are still pottering around in the mellow light. My late afternoon spot is on a blanket under the plum tree which of course makes me one hundred times more interesting than I was five minutes earlier when I wasn’t sitting down with [...]
Posted in Family Life, Food on Jun 13th, 2010
Since my passion for good fresh food awoke in my early twenties the local farmers’ markets have been a staple of ours. When we were a foot loose couple we would travel around the county to shop from the market weekly but since having children we mostly stick with the twice monthly market in Winchester. [...]
Posted in Family Life, Food, Making on Jun 11th, 2010
This was the very specific description of the cake Milla wanted her birthday candles on. I figured that if she was going to have a chocolate cake it may as well be big and gooey so I made a fudge cake using the recipe from Leiths Baking Bible. Despite accidentally leaving out half of the [...]
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