Even though I'm not Chinese, and don't have any Chinese heritage as far as I'm aware, we've celebrated Chinese New Year for as far back as I can remember 🙂 I pretty much grew up on dim sum - every week when families would go out for a traditional English Sunday roast lunch, mine would… Continue reading Chinese New Year: Siu Mai (pork and prawn dumplings)
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Weekend Cat Blogging #295: Poppy
This isn't my cat. My cat, who I was trying to take a photo of, ran off at the sight of my camera as if I'd drawn a shotgun on him! So instead I got a lense full of Poppy! She's a neighbour's kitten and doesn't seem to realise that this is not her garden… Continue reading Weekend Cat Blogging #295: Poppy
Soup Season: Garden Pea Soup
I love peas. In the age old question of "what luxury item would you take to a desert island with you?" it would be peas without a doubt! Fresh garden peas (or frozen ones) though, not the canned variety because that's just blasphemy. When my husband and I first started dating he bought me a… Continue reading Soup Season: Garden Pea Soup
Snow Day …part two
So the snow started on November 30th and kept coming over December 1st, which made me decide to go for a walk in it to the local nature reserve 🙂 For the amount of snow that fell, we only had about 1" that stuck. We haven't had much snow in England over the actual winter… Continue reading Snow Day …part two
Snow Day …part one
I have quite a bit of catching up to do! My lack of blogging during December, and the first part of January, has left me with a stack of photos to post! We had a really snowy winter in England, it started at the end of November/start of December and only really started to let… Continue reading Snow Day …part one
Stuck In A Rut?
I know I haven't blogged for a while and it isn't for lack of content, believe me! I have photographs and other things piling up on my hard drive just waiting to be blogged about. So what is holding me back? It's strange because I want to be sharing this stuff - I take the… Continue reading Stuck In A Rut?