Monthly Archives: July 2008

A nice earworm

By Alice | Published: July 16, 2008

I have been humming this song for weeks now. And the video is lovely too. Fleet Foxes, White Winter Hymnal, video directed by Sean Pecknold. This whole new wave of the psychedelic folk movement is creating some very hummable tunes :)

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Moro cookbook

By Alice | Published: July 15, 2008

I am really enjoying the Moro cookbook. I dilly dallied about buying it as I have never been to the restaurant and it has quite a few meat recipes in it. However after tasting the Rosewater and Cardamom ice cream that my sister made from one of their recipes I had to buy it. You [...]

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He bakes cakes

By Alice | Published: July 15, 2008

For once not me cooking :) Last night Simon baked his first ever cake from scratch… Aren’t they great looking! He used this recipe for a Lemon Drizzle cake. I helped him choose this one because the cake was for his work colleagues and there are so many people who don’t like nuts, or raisins, [...]

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Supersonic Sunday

By Alice | Published: July 14, 2008

Custard Factory, Birmingham.Kikuri. I have just returned from Supersonic festival in Birmingham which was excellent. Quite possibly one of my favourite music festivals. This time we also took some time to have a look around Birmingham, it is a nice place. I liked it a lot. Everyone seems pretty friendly and down to earth. I [...]

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Dark Red Sunflower

By Alice | Published: July 10, 2008

So I planted a little seed back in april, and it has turned out to be a towering dark red sunflower! I am not going to harvest the seeds for myself so I hope that the birds will enjoy them. Not too many words today as I have just returned from IKEA. Always so incredibly [...]

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