More tea, vicar?

Having a couple of friends over for tea later, so I thought I'd make some biscuits.  Made digestive biscuits and Anzac biscuits. Also made shortbread with wholemeal flour and brown sugar, but that came out too sweet and rather stodgy! I sometimes put semolina in, but didn't have any.

Digestive biscuits -

100g medium oatmeal

100g wholemeal flour
40g caster sugar
75g butter
Pinch salt
Pinch bicarb
½ egg

* Rub fat into flour, oatmeal, bicarb and salt

* Add sugar
* Bind with egg
* Roll out onto board sprinkled with oatmeal + cut out (about 20 biscuits)
* Gas 6 / 375/400 for about 15 mins.
* Lovely with cheese!

Anzac biscuits -

Anzac biscuits RECIPE HERE

 

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Went to the woods at the weekend - lots of bluebells out, and the trees are really greening up, aren't they?  Lovely. Lots of wild flowers out too - violets and aconites and wood anemones.

 

 

 

Ruby used to be terrified of the bear, but she's getting braver! -

 

A few pretty finds -

 

 

Have a good week!

 

Come on tree, grow............!

Having downsized, three years ago, to where we are now, from a half-timbered cottage in 3/4 acre in the country, we wondered how we'd get on living in town, with a much smaller garden. But we are really lucky that our road backs on to meadows and so we have a huge 'borrowed landscape'. To keep the view, and maximise light (although it is south-facing) I didn't plant anything very high at the end of the garden. But sometimes it feels a bit too exposed. So today we planted an apple tree (Laxton's Superb) which will hopefully bulk out a bit and provide a bit more shape (eventually!) -

 

 

 

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Some good finds this weekend - a nice old wicker chair, pine corner shelves and lovely red-painted shelves -

 

 

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Having acquired some teeth, Tilly seemed determined this week to pull them out! -

 

 

(No, her dad's not a sailor, her mum's just been on a friend's hen weekend on a barge.....!)

 

 

Have a great week!

 



Spring cleaning?.....er, no

Had intended to have a big sort out of my unit in the shop today, as it's slowly inching towards me being a candidate for one of those "I'm bonkers and I hoard stuff" TV programmes -

 

Some parts aren't too bad -

 

 

But some areas definitely need a sort out - 

 

 

 

So.............did I have a clear out?  Er, no, I went and bought more stuff, then came back and did some painting!  Found some nice 'rustic'items -

 

 

And some pretty china - this is Johnsons Bros - it's very pale green -

 

 

A sweet cake plate, and jugs -

 

And a retro fruity dish set (crying out for tinned peaches and evaporated milk!) - and honey pot -

 

 And I painted a little pine bookcase and a mirror - and two towel rails - oops, no pics of those!

 





 Oh, well, another day for the sorting out!  

 

 

Have a good week! x

It's all getting greener!

Got some lovely green glassware this week -

 

And the garden's been slowly greening up too -

 

 

I thought this ranunculus was really pretty the other day -

 

 

- then today I noticed it had got even prettier - pink around the edges -

 

 

 

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We took Tilly and Ruby to a local Farm park last week ( Newbridge Farm park ) - they loved seeing the goats, sheep, chickens, pigs, horses, ducks, geese - and llamas!

 

 

Ruby helped the man to collect the eggs -

 

 

Have a good Bank Holiday weekend!