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Glorious Gladioli – part two

A few weeks back I posted about my lovely gladioli. We enjoyed the gladioli for exactly five more days after the post until it broke under it own weight on the the windy rainy Saturday of the ...

Gardening

Veg About

Well, Veg About isn’t going so well at Rose Cottage. As you will have seen in a previous post, vegetables rebelled and went to seed. We have tomatoes, although something has munched on a ...

Life and Outings

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone! Enjoy your day. I look forward to reading all your post-Christmas posts.

Sewing and Craft

Brown paper packages….

All of the presents are wrapped and under the tree – in fact half of them have already gone to their new owners before I remembered to take photos of them (are we noticing a forgetfulness ...

Update

thinking out aloud

I’ve been thinking about this blog of late and how I can keep up with it a bit more rather than suddenly post five posts in a row after not posting for a week and I’ve come up with a ...

Food & Recipes

Anyone for some punch?

I love a good punch and I never entertain without whipping up a punch of some description. Last nights punch was fairly tame as far as punches go due to the number of people driving. Cranberry ...

Food & Recipes

Turkish Delight Ice Cream Cake

Easy and yummy! 1L container of Cadbury turkish delight ice cream 500ml carton of custard Frozen raspberries Half a block of dark chocolate 1/4 cup of cream 1. Soften ice cream and combine with ...

Food & Recipes

Christmas treats

Last night we had some friends around for finger food, drinks and dessert. Today we have an enormous surplus of food – mainly chocolate – due to my wonderful tendency to always ...

Sewing and Craft

The Grinch

We had a ‘who can decorate the best Christmas table’ competition at work last week. This was right up my alley, so I hastily gathered the department together and we came up with The ...