Afternoon Tea at the Botanics

  I love Tea, I am a Tea Ginny – fact. I also love Afternoon Tea, I just love all the little goodies that you get – such a wide choice of naughtiness! My parents are coming to the end of their stay with us and they are also Tea Ginnys, my mum especially being…

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Merry Christmas!

Joyeaux Noel! Feliz Navidad! Frohe Weihnachten!Feliz Natal! I hope everyone has had a lovely Christmas filled with presents, food and family!

Its starting to look a lot like Christmas!!

Since some form of order has now been restored in our flat (post decorators) and the Christmas decorations have been put up! Years ago, after one of our first winter trips abroad, my husband and I started to buy a decoration from every place we went.  Its amazing what you can find in Christmas decorations…

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Purple Purdies

All hail the Purple Purdie!! Sitting there in its mighty purpleness… I should probably explain that an Irish term for the good old potato is ‘Purdie’.  But these aren’t any old purdies, no, they are Albert Bartlett Purple Majesty Potatoes. We spotted these little beauties a few weeks ago while doing our weekly shop.  My…

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Stamp it out

I was out doing some Christmas shopping this afternoon and whilst in Paperchase I saw this really cute set of Typewriter letter stampers.  I just had to have them! Not sure what I am going to do with them however… might take me a while to stamp everyone’s Christmas Cards!

Puff Pastry Delights

I had such great plans for this weekend, starting firstly with getting the Christmas shopping kicked off! I had to work Saturday morning, which went on longer than planned, then the weather (which was sunny and windy) took a turn to wet and very windy.  The appeal of trudging around busy, festively decorated shops waned…

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The Perfect White Loaf

I do love fresh homemade bread and having made some lovely soup I thought what I needed with it was some fresh bread, straight from the oven…and that’s exactly what I did! I used a recipe from the latest Great British Bake Off Cook Book for ‘The Perfect White Loaf. It was pretty straightforward to…

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Amore Dogs, Edinburgh!!

**Sadly Amore Dogs is now closed After a rather lazy start this morning we decided to take a trip into town and treat ourselves to lunch somewhere. We quite often do this and have our favourite spots, though today we decided we needed to try somewhere different.  We eventually decided on Amore Dogs on Hanover…

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This is how I Cinnamon Roll….

Sorry for the title. I was having trouble thinking of one for this particular post and all I could come up with was this cheesy one! Anyway, since it is / was National Baking Week and I haven’t actually had the chance to do any baking this week I decided that I would make something…

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Fluffy Pancakes

I love pancakes.  We are not long back from America and indulged in a decent amount of fluffy pancake eating.  I haven’t been feeling too well the last few days, so wakening up to a plate of these on a lazy Sunday morning made me feel better, and brought back happy memories of a great…

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