Monthly Archives: April 2012

right outside my work looks like this

Come on spring, hurry up! :)

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Cotswolds: Stow-on-the-wold

Yesterday we went on a little Sunday jaunt to explore a town we hadn’t been to before. I had been told that The White Hart in Stow-on-the-wold was good, and the menu did look great, but we were too early for lunch and needed breakfast really so we went into this cute little cafe called [...]

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The Jelly Experiments

I got fixed on the idea of coming up with a grownup striped jelly recipe that I could make both for my sister’s birthday, and the wedding of two friends where they were having a pudding competition. I experimented over about two months. Striped jelly (or ‘jello’) isn’t particularly a new thing but I didn’t [...]

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Bournemouth adventure

Living so far from the coast makes a trip to the sea so exciting! On Friday we took the train to the coast, we chose Bournemouth as it is 2 hours from Oxford on a direct train and we’d not been there. We would have gone whatever the weather but by excellent coincidence it was [...]

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New bag

Barbour Tarras bag in Liberty print. A very useful bag. Useful for carrying stuff to the bank of a muddy stream :)

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