What a change in the weather to last week. At the start of the week, having heard that the water was hovering around 12C, I ordered swim socks and gloves to swim in this weekend. By the end of ...
Been a bit busy for blogging this week, but heres some pictures from this week so far:The plants are growing and looking very green. This weekend may be the one where I can plant out the second attem...
First swimming race of the season this morning, and the first time my Mum has ever come along to watch me. I had a really bad case of nerves last night, I think because this season is the first...
So last night saw the great Steamed Pudding experiment using this recipe to use up some of our remaining oranges from the previous weeks veg box (Mr W finds them a bit difficult to eat at work)....
This week’s veg box caught me a bit by surprise. We still had 1.5 courgettes left from the previous box, as well as an avocado which was only just ripe, 4 oranges, 2 bananas and 2 apples left. I had ...
Onto more book purchase confessions. These books have all arrived in the last week or so. I was browsing through Juxtabooks blog the other day and was reminded about the author Verily And...
Well, cake eating could easily be a sport. It certainly seemed that way when I hosted the Oxford Free Cakes for Kids volunteers meeting last weekend. I made four sorts of sweet treats in ...
I don’t know what it is about this time of year; maybe it is the anticipation of summer being met with miserable weather (SURELY by May we should be sitting out in the garden?), maybe it is the Bank ...
I have to say its rather nice to get home to boxes of fresh fruit and vegetabkes. Look at my lovely apples, bananas and oranges! Oranges and bananas do particularly put one in mind of war...
Its been a bit of a miserable week. In the scheme of things a cancelled swimming race, more perpetual rain and yet more dental issues (suspected gum infection this time, necessitating mouth tem...
I am always excited to get home from work on a Tuesday and see what the veg box man has brought me! Well, I usually have a good idea from the website but its so exciting to see it in the ...
Its been a while since Ive blogged about growing things. Or rather not growing things as the picture below shows. I mentioned I think that Mr W planted out my courgettes whilst I was conf...
My library loot posts when I feel that I have got some particularly good books from the library tend to be somewhat sporadic and I never manage to get them to tie into the Library Loot blogging event...
Its been an insanely busy week again, and Im just not sure where the time goes! I would love to blog every day as I sometimes used to, but I have barely had any reading time, let alone blogging...
BOOOO. iPhone FAIL. I took photos of our veg box and fruit box straight into blogger last night, omitted to save the post (blogger saves automatically on the internet but doesnt on a phon...
Some veg from this weeks veg box all ready for my evening meal :-)
Its been a difficult week here and I am very glad that the last eight days are now over and hopefully things are on the up again. There hasnt been much posting on the blog because there hasnt been mu...
Unfortunately Veritys Veg Box #2 arrived while I was poorly in bed; It seemed that the trauma of having a wisdom tooth out had finally hit and although I made it back to work on Monday, on Tuesday I ...
As tomorrow another veg box will be arriving, I thought Id report back on my first week of veg boxing. Im happy to report that bar about a handful of spinach all of the vegetables have be...
Spent all but three hours in bed yesterday and it looks like today will bemore of the same. Post op my cheek is very swollen, bruised and sore, which is stopping me from sleeping much. Today I am fee...
Thanks all for the kind comments on the post about my wisdom tooth. The good news is that this time it was a known quantity and I had a very experienced consultant so the actual op only took 20...
...of the cheering variety. Some of my readers may know that I am having another wisdom tooth out in an hour or so in hospital. Ive treated myself to some new books for when I get back la...
Super excited about our first veg box which arrived today! It was the first thing I looked at when I got in, before I even took my coat and bicycle helmet off. I knew it had arrived safel...
Easter is definitely a time of new life. I know we can buy daffodils in the shops from early January these days, but it is around Easter time that they really feel appropriate. My lovely ...
Mr W and I are going away for a few days on Saturday, not quite a week, and as weve had such lovely weather all of this week, I am anticipating 6 days of torrential rain holed up in a holiday cottage...
Im still waiting for my copy of The night circus to arrive, but Ive read the other 19 longlisted titles and as were off for a little break (more on that later), it seems like a good time to round up ...
I approached The blue book with no little trepidation, as I thought it was probably among the most literary of the orange longlist. I have not read any books by Kennedy previously, but know of her as...
I must have read Ann Patchetts previous Orange prizewinner Bel Canto several years ago. And I was impressed. The story was unsettling, but it was gripping and well written, and I think the same is al...
I remember a great deal of publicity when Tides of war came out last year, the book itself didnt really interest me as it is a historical novel, but Ive gritted my teeth and got on with it as it is o...
So the last 24 hours have been both sociable and literary. Well, sort of.Last night I scrambled home from work to go and listen to Patrick Gale talk about his latest book at The Woodstock Bookshop wi...
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