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n a shock move, I actually did some gardening this morning. Well, sort of – I vaguely hacked at the weeds in the herb garden (does it still count as a herb garden if the only herb in it is the rosemary plant that went feral and took over the entire garden?) to clear a…
Cat mat
There is a type of tiny quilt that is commonly called a “mug rug”. Except, in my house apparently it would be more appropriately called a “cat mat”. “What? It looked comfortable.” I have decided that Parsnips follows a definite set of rules when deciding whether to sit on something: Truth condition Probability of cat…
Cobblers
Mojosmom’s suggestion of a peach cobbler sent me off to Google. I’d only ever encountered cobblers in fiction, but Google quickly turned up a plethora of recipes, all completely different. In the end I found one that seemed to resemble what she’d described, so (after a bit of tweaking to adapt it to metric measurements,…
Cucumber sandwiches and a chicken in a tree
I spent this afternoon with Harvestbird and the mini-Harvestbirds at a garden party hosted by Dorothy’s pop-up tearooms (i.e. my friend Jan, who catered my graduation party). After cold and wet weather earlier in the week, it was a lovely afternoon sitting under the trees eating scones and cucumber sandwiches and an array of incredible…
Summer!
Ok, now it’s officially summer. Not because it was Brother’s birthday (and therefore the first day of summer) on Friday. Not because it’s been stinking hot the last two days. But because I went to the supermarket this morning, and guess what they had? Raspberries!!! Yay!!!! They were stupidly expensive, but who cares, the first…
Horses? What horses?
ust be Cup Day today, because it’s stupidly hot. It seems like it’s always stupidly hot on Cup Day, keeping the ambulances busy with drunken heat-stroke victims (and then, just when the weather has lulled us into thinking maybe summer is here and planning barbeques, the weather packs in again until after Christmas). At least…