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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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What is your measure of a day? I used to have an informal rating system based on toast. A day was either a soggy toast day (bad) or a crispy toast day, which was good. Seeing as how I am now denied bread and all bread-products - something that is very, very hard for me [...]

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I am treating you all abominably at the moment, dear blog readers. No Sunday Roast again. I sat down at the computer last night to have a quick pre-Sunday gander at what I had instore for you all today, and was driven to swearing. Loudly. Out of deference to my poor father reading this on [...]

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Ah, memes, the answer to every uninspired bloggers prayers. It’s been a while since I was tagged and even longer since I saw a meme I actually thought I’d waste time and valuable post-inches on, but when Edrei asked, how could I refuse?
Here we are then. Seven random things about me. Since have been [...]

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