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deadly sins
Wine glasses based on the seven deadly sins by Hamilton Design. This is wrath Wrath but I'm also quite keen on gluttony… Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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megatarts
Have been listening to I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue this week, inspired by the tribute to Humphrey Lyttleton tribute on R4 this Sunday. I love ISIHAC, when trying to explain why I love it I always come...
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Things I like…
Graze It’s a simple idea really, you send them money, they send you snacks. I first used them when Jenny and Jonny bought me a voucher for Graze for my birthday the year before last and I’ve used them...
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The Owl and the Pussycat
I was reading a blog (offallygood) about scallops and in the post Hannah mentions The Walrus and the Carpenter. Which made me think about my dad. Noel had a thing about nonsense poetry, actually he...
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Four things
1) Apparently, I am a person who eats and enjoys porridge. Proof that if you keep trying food you don’t like you may come around to it eventually! 2) How to tie my shoelaces. I’ve been doing it wrong...
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Current favourite lunch
This is what I’m eating for lunch most days. It’s not so much a recipe more a guide.. It consists of sprouted lentils, roasted tomatoes, pepper, feta, basil and mint. It’s easy packs a big flavour...
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Want
Time for another edition of things that might make good presents! Litographs have some beautiful posters made with the text from the books they depict, I’m especially keen on the Persuasion one below...
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Booze Related Presents
With some time on my hands and the knowledge that walking is going to be severely limited from now until Christmas and because I can’t drink while I’m recovering, alcohol and the painkillers don’t mix....
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Kitchen Equipment: Salad Spinner
I’m fascinated by what people feel is essential in their kitchens and how that changes as our lives and cooking styles do. I live quite happily without a microwave, something I couldn’t have imagining...
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Recommendation: Nightdress
In recent years, I have embraced sleepwear, I refused to wear clothes in bed until my 30’s and now I am a firm wearer of pyjamas. I generally find it difficult to get night ‘jamas though. I don’t want...
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Recommendation: Elvis Juice
I quite like Brewdog beers (I also like the Lone Wolf gin they make but like the navy strength over the ordinary one, of course I do!). This one is my favourite, Elvis Juice
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Recommendations: Altruist Sun Screen
I have talked about how much I love this sun screen before. It is the magic unicorn of sunblock. Altruist covers UVA and UVB, hypoallergenic, fragrance free, water resistant, can be used on the face...
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Recommendation: Sally Hansen Nail Rehab
One of the strange side effects of having an allotment is that it really improved my nails. In the first two summers of having the plot , my nails stop flaking and peeling, I think it’s something to do...
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Recommendation: Teva’s
I have a problem and that problem is my feet. It’s not just that they’re ugly, it’s that they aren’t very good at being feet and have lots of issues, they are almost completely flat, large (UK size 8)...
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Recommendations: Barter Books
This week’s recommendation is geographically tricky for most of the world and for me, most days of the year, but Barter Books is one of my favourite places.There are books and lights and a model train...
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Recommendations: Rootbeer
The first McDonalds opened in the UK in 1974, the one in Fulham opened sometime in the 70’s and as far I was concerned the best thing about it was the root beer, I was very upset in 1993 when they...
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Recommendations: Superdrug Intensive Moisture Hand Cream
I like hand cream, in my flat, there is one in every room and always one in my handbag. I just don’t like the feeling of dry hands after I’ve washed them. This is the one that I use most often. It’s...
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Recommendations: Marks and Spencer’s Formula Absolute Lip Eye Cream
One of the best things I did for myself last year was the M&S Beauty Calendar. I find December difficult and the calendar was the perfect daily present, something to look forward too. It also...
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Recommendations: 19 Crimes Red Wine
I’m not a wine snob. As a general rule, if it’s white I don’t like it to be too sweet and I don’t like oaky wine, if it’s fizz I’d prefer a cremant over prosecco, with red I generally pick a new world...
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Recommendation: English Heritage and National Trust Memberships
Now I’m 46, I am middle aged, I like gardening and old buildings, I have been known to plan holidays around going to see particular old buildings (mostly Middleham which is my favourite castle!). I did...
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