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  • Happy Christmas to you all!
    This year I decided to make you, my dear friends, a virtual Christmas card rather than sending  Christmas cards abroad throughout the world. Partly this was for financial reasons and partly because I decided to make a small contribution to charity instead. I created the card below on a bit of a whim and i’m surprised [...]
  • Dried Fruit Chutney Recipe/Christmas Chutney Recipe
    I’m no domestic goddess but I certainly feel like the culinary queen of my own little kitchen when I follow a recipe and it actually works without my messing it up! I was thrilled, yes, thrilled i tell you, when I achieved success using Delia’s recipe for Christmas Chutney/Dried Fruit Chutney. This chutney can, of course, be [...]
  • And now for something completely different…
    Tis (almost) the season to be jolly…ho ho OOOOOOOOOOOO. Anyway, you know i like to cook? You do know that by now don’t you? Well I have got in to preserving (and persevering!)  in a BIG way in the last couple of months. I’m going to post about my most recent culinary endeavour first as it is highly seasonal [...]
  • Did my absence make your heart grow fonder…
    …i doubt it. Having returned once more to blogging this very day,  I have  discovered that during my cyber absence, some people chose to bump me off their blogrolls/google readers etc. Had i not such thick skin (actually i’m pretty thick everywhere but we won’t go into that!) I may have been hurt, but I have more [...]
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    Posted in In my World..., Just to say..., Ukok Goes Postal, Uncategorized
  • Day Trip to London (with Videos!)
    As mentioned in the previous post, Wondergirl turned 18 years old yesterday. To celebrate, Mum and Dad paid for us to go to London for a day trip on the Saturday before her birthday. We got up really early on Saturday morning, caught the train to London and spent the whole day there, not getting [...]
  • Wondergirl comes of age…
    I am now the proud mother of an adult daughter…because Wondergirl turned 18 (Monday) today! To celebrate, my parents paid for us to travel to London for a day trip –  in the next post i will include the pictures from our London trip and try to upload a couple of short videos we took while [...]
  • Out of the Depths
    I’ve been experiencing the extreme version of  life’s big dipper ride of late…it seems that I get stuck on the ‘lows’ rather too frequently for comfort and the highs are far too fleeting for me to grasp on to for any length of time. In other words…. life has sucked big time lately. I can’t seem to [...]
  • Very Ocassional Daily Meditation Medication
    Pray and do not be apprehensive about anything; do not be afraid of trouble or misfortune, for prayer will protect you and sustain you in all circumstances~ St. John Chrysostom, 4th century Posted in Daily Meditation Medication, Faith Matters, Inspiration
  • Perfectly Easy Peasy ‘Scone Base’ Pizza – Simple Living
    For this cooking extravaganza i’m using my mum’s  pizza scone base recipe. The name could sound a bit off-putting but it doesn’t taste at all like scones,  the omission being the eggs and sugar and dried fruits which are replaced in the recipe by grated/shredded cheese and dried herbs. I recommend this as a quick and filling [...]

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