Monthly Archives: May 2009

herbs and elections

By Alice | Published: May 18, 2009

    I grow most of my basil inside on the window sill and when it is getting dark as I lower the blind it brushes past the plants making a lovely smell. I also keep in the window some of the seedlings I am keeping a particular eye on – such as these baby [...]

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town planning

By Alice | Published: May 17, 2009

For my degree (which seems ages ago now) my final work was on the suburbs, after looking at these pictures today I am thinking that I might revive this topic as a photographic subject. I took these in Wellington in Telford where Simon grew up. We went to visit his family, as usual they fed [...]

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Weekend breakfast: Wholemeal Scotch Pancakes

By Alice | Published: May 16, 2009

My favourite thing to do on the weekend is to get up really early in order to get in plenty of time to be lazy and relaxed before having to be out and about :) It is nice to make a proper breakfast too, rather than my usual oat cereal, especially as I don't usually [...]

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river

By Alice | Published: May 14, 2009

  Sigh, my new bike had to go back to the shop for adjustments so I am bike-less for the next few days. I am trying to get a positive outcome from this state affairs by doing things that I might not do if I had my bike. So I walked a route back from [...]

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chilli and garlic tofu

By Alice | Published: May 14, 2009

What do you have for dinner when you can have anything? My go-to treat type dish is chilli and garlic tofu. I may well have mentioned my chilli and garlic tofu addiction before, my old housemates talked about staging an intervention as I used to make it so often :) Mmmm, anyway this is the [...]

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