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Archive for July, 2008

Sunday Roast: Ouch town, population you bro!

Cas is taking a short break so it’s a Moose flavoured roast this week. Let me reassure everyone (parental units especially) that she is fine, She’s eating healthily - roasted vegetables for dinner, yuk! - she’s up and about not mopeing in her room. As I write she is busy sorting out [...]

Sunday Roast: mmmm unexplained bacon

So I have reached that point of loosing weight where your old clothes no longer fit, but you still aren’t fitting into the next size down in the shops either. I am having to resort to trousers and skirts held up with safety pins, belts and rolled-over waistbands. Which is lovely, don’t misunderstand me, but [...]

Review of Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier

The Book:
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
The Facts:
Pages: 320 (paperback)
Published: 1st ed - 1936
The Blurb:
Her mother’s dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman’s warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives at a dismal place [...]

Mini Chocolate Ginger Cakes

I have made a bit of a rod for my back at work by starting a tradition where I bake cakes for the team when it is someone’s birthday - well, I like to bake and if I bake for the team then it is not just me and Moose who are responsible for scarfing [...]

Sunday Roast: I’m gonna need a bigger spatula

Ooh, it is a Sunday and I am willingly writing a Roast. I must be getting better! Actually, the week has been a bit pants, but with the aid of lots of tea and cookies it is looking up and I am all set to take on next week and whatever it has to throw [...]