Felt Play-food Sandwich

Here is a little something I prepared earlier!…no seriously I had not a clue what to give a friends little girl who is turning three tomorrow, and after nearly breaking the bank to get the dog sorted out, it needed to be economical on the family purse.
Thinking about the things that the Tallest has really [...]

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Back to normal again

The distinct lack of posts has been due to actually having a social life!
And having finally returned from what will be the last engagement for a few weeks things may return to their normal pace.
Prior to going away for our first ever weekend without the children, the allotment was given some serious attention, and was [...]

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Recycled Wool Longies

A jumper that I never wore was turned into a shrug…which I wore…and then it got put on the hot wash!…so now it has a new lease of life as a pair of wollen longies for the smallest.
I haven’t had her in them yet, but I have the sneaking suspicion that they aren’t going to [...]

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Fragrant Baby Wipes Recipe

The Smallest is cutting teeth with a vengence (read two and three teeth at a time) and the normal mixture of water with a few frops of lavender oil, is doing little to cut through the acidic velcro like mess welded onto her bottom, so I thought that I would share my more complicated (haha) [...]

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Skinning and Drawing a Pheasant

This isn’t the tidiest of jobs done, but my only excuse is that it was snowing and hailing so my fingers we’re working as well as they should have. So please be warned if you have no interest in the preparation of meat…look away now…
Tools for the job are sharp pointed knife, scerated knife, and [...]

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Chainsaw Maintainance

The Chainsaw has been getting rather a lot of use just lately as we haven’t kept up with the wood as well as we should have this summer.
Hubby availed himself of a fireside seat and took to cleaning it down. Oiling all the neccessary parts once a copious amount of compacted wood chippings had been [...]

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Ffffrosty mornings

All these frosty mornings, although not helping the frugal use of wood, has definately had a palpable effect on the earth at the allotment, there is a definate breaking up of the larger lumps.
I wish that I could say that I was responsible for the largest part of the plot having been dug over, but [...]

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Edible Christmas Gifts

Using the recipes in the last three posts, they needed to be prettied up a bit. I was fortunate that I had some Cellophane card sleeves so I folded the bottom corners into themselves to turn it into a tube and then filled with the said goodies. Sealed the top and then gathered with a [...]

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Quick and Easy Chocolate Fudge

This is so utterly simple it not true, and it never fails to get me out of a tight corner at short notice, these are a real winner to take to any occasion and can be made in the time it takes to do the washing up, its only the chilling which takes time, but [...]

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Chocolate Coated Cherries

Makes 2
You will need:
12 Glace Cherries
250g / 9oz Marzipan
125g / 5 1/2oz Dark or Milk Chocolate
Extra Milk, Dark or White Chocolate to decorate (optional)

Line a standard sized baking tray with parchment paper.
Cut the Cherries into half.
Divide the marzipan into 24 equal pieces and roll each piece into a ball, press half a cherry onto the [...]

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