Category Archives: The house

getting into the swing of things

By Alice | Published: December 5, 2011

The tree is up! We also have our Advent wreath out (you light a candle every Sunday in Advent). The season of lebkuchen, mulled wine, and so on is in full swing :)

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other ways to a cheerful winter

By Alice | Published: October 29, 2010

1. Increase fairy string light quota.
2. Mulled wine.

I got some new lights for inside the house. I don’t quite have as many as Nigella… yet. Mulled wine is also another perk of this season. It seems that Oxford is a very mulled wine sort of place, most pubs will do it from about now through to next year. There are hundreds of different mulled wine recipes, some involve things like Earl Grey tea and brandy. However if I make it at home I have a quick recipe of 2 parts red wine to 1 part fresh orange juice plus a couple of cloves, a dash of cinnamon, and a teaspoon or two of honey. Then heat very gently for a few minutes in a pan. For me the key is not over spicing it, cloves can be very powerful. There is also the non-alcoholic version of heating cloudy apple juice with the mulling spices which is very tasty. Roll on winter.

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By Alice | Published: August 18, 2010

I think it looks like I’m walking on the ceiling. That’s a week of daily posts, I’m going to go back to posting when I feel like it, it might be daily or it might not :)

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this day

By Alice | Published: August 12, 2010

I feel I’m in some sort of waiting phase with all sorts of trips and adventures just around the corner. I think it’s partly because there ARE trips and adventures around the corner hopefully. I’ve been planning for a big trip next year and some things before this year is out (fingers crossed). Also I have some projects that I’m getting on with that are at their beginnings. This weather at the moment is also very waiting-ish neither very summer nor autumn.

So I thought I would shake things up for a week or so by taking and posting daily pictures if I can. These are today’s.

1. I was sitting on the back door step looking at Twitter on my phone with my feet in the rain while the rest of me was in the dry. Beep came to see what I was doing.
2. Weeds
3. Weeds
4. The kitties like to take running jumps onto the new carpet so its usual state is all bunched up like this.
5. Brief bit of sunshine.
6. Making pizza dough. I use this recipe.
7. The garden is a bit overgrown at the moment.