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Goodness me, where does the time go?!
17h03 on Sunday evening and I haven't had time to blog this weekend!!Where does the time go?As the old saying goes: Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. (I looked for a picture of fruit...
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Christmas is coming, the Mouse is getting fat!
Well, not really. I am still fasting (or semi-fasting) two days a week, but I think that after next week I may let that slide for a couple of weeks. I have been buying "little extras" for the last...
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Christmas Catch Up.
Hello Dear Readers - if, that is, I have anyone left after a longish break! I am sorry - Real Life rather got in the way. Nothing bad, but just time consuming! I had hoped to have all of Christmas week...
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..and now it's nearly New Year
Well, there we are. 2014 is coming to a close. It's been a fairly uneventful year for us at the Dormousehold, but generally it's been good. Mr FD has a job - soon, we believe, to become permanent; I...
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Recipes, Menus and other fun stuff.
January 2ndI was searching online for some recipes yesterday – though heavens knows why as I have recipe book upon recipe book to use! – and I came across this part of the BBC Good Food site “7-a-day”...
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Pay it forward - does anyone want to join in?
I have joined in with someone from church with "Pay it Forward in 2015" on Facebook.Pay it forward 2015 - The first five people who comment on this status with "I'm in" will receive a surprise from me...
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A Little Giveaway - and a recipe review
I'm managing to blog every day so far - some here and some at The Teapot. Yesterday's post at The Teapot was a Giveaway - nothing big, just a bit of fun really, but do pop over and join in if you would...
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Wise words from Voltaire
I wonder how those outside of France - or even outsiders (like me!) inside France - are viewing this week's events in and around Paris. I have - not very eloqently - set out some of my conflicting...
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Another week's Menus. Miam-miam!
And after my post about the recent events in Paris, I am writing a more mundane post about food and suchlike...Oh dear...I notice there were 121 and now there are 120 - Followers, that is. I wonder who...
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We were Charlie
St Just is a small village, really - between 1,000 & 1,500 people - but on Sunday there was a gathering of quite a large number 5I estimate about 500) to walk around the village in tribute to the...
View ArticleOh dear...I should be working!
The title says it all: I've got loads of lesson preparation to do today, as next week doesn't have a spare day in it PLUS a new set of students, about whom I know next to nothing.So just quick post...
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Good food from fresh ingredients
SOURCE: misoginger.comI don't always use fresh ingredients, but I like to think my food is good. I sometimes ask Mr FD "Would you rather have a wife who was a good cook or a good cleaner?" He always...
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RECIPE: Pumpkin & Peanut Curry
As you might have gathered, Mr FD and I like our food...and while we do try to eat healthily, we are often tempted away from the narrow path by delicious cakes and biscuits. Whatever we are told about...
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Lovely people
I had a lovely lunch today with lovely people today - it was Thierry & Barbara's last lesson.After 100 hours of lessons they have really become like friends, espêcially as we have been going out to...
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What are you taking on for Lent?
Instead of giving something up, why not take something on?!Watch this video for more details......
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GROW YOUR BLOG time
...but I almost forgot! How stupid am I?! Luckily I saw that a couple of the blogs I now follow, through last year's Grow Your Blog party, have posted, and that reminded me.So, here is the bit where...
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Thinking about the 5:2
Hello everyone! It has been lovely to have had so many visitors to both this blog and to The Teapot. If you are here for the Grow-Your-Blog party, you can read my special post here.I have been trying...
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People who love to eat...
Hello! I thought you might be interested in this:You can read more over at The Teapot.Usually I join in with Floss's Pause in Advent, but Real Life has taken over for Floss and she hasn't time to host...
View ArticleYuckity yuck
I've been wiped out today by a gastro - most of the day spent sleeping, vomiting or...well, I think you can guess!!I don't know what it was - possibly a dodgy prawn, possibly something else. But...
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Normal Service...?
Vaguely normal service is being introduced after yesterday's gastro attack - although I'm not in much of an eating mood. So far today I have had a bowl of porridge and two Hobnob-type biscuits. And,...
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