The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah: I first read this in early 2018 and reviewed it in my March round-up. I read it originally in electronic form , but purchased a paperback copy for the re-read, as The Brainy One was using my Kindle. It's just as great a read the second time around. One … Continue reading For the Love of Books | Currently Reading May 2020
Week 19: I finished listening to 13 Minutes to the Moon (via BBC Sounds and the BBC World Service). I might have purchased a pair of funky gold trainers from Boden. We had a Champagne Afternoon Tea to commemorate VE Day. I had an hour to myself and caught up on Series 5 of Outlander … Continue reading Project Life Revisited | Weeks 19 and 20
Captain Tom made his first appearance in our Covid-19 journal: Also added is our Lockdown Playlist. I simply listed the songs on a few vertical 4x6 journaling cards, popped them into a glassine envelope, which I had mounted on musically-themed patterned paper, and added a few embellishments. The Boy Child has picked up additional chores … Continue reading Covid-19 | The Journal | Part 3
Source During this time of staying at home, I've found that song lyrics have sometimes taken on a new meaning. The Boy Child and I have begun to compile our own Lockdown Playlist to add to our Covid-19 Journal and here's what we have so far: Times Like These by Live Lounge All Stars. You'll … Continue reading Life in Lockdown | The Lockdown Playlist
I saw this recipe in a recent issue of Good Housekeeping magazine and I've made it twice. My finished dish looks darker than the image in the magazine, but I think that's because of the cider I used. Pancetta and celery might have been scarce in the Lockdown larder, but The Brainy One was coerced … Continue reading Chicken Normandy
I've always walked Tilly twice a day, sometimes more, so it was obvious fairly early on in Lockdown that walking her once a day wouldn't be enough to make up for all the swimming I wouldn't be doing. I also knew that I wasn't going to be able to do anywhere near the amount of … Continue reading Life in Lockdown | Finding the Fitness
Ingredients:•85 g butter• 75 g soft brown sugar• 1 tsp vanilla essence• 75 g dried cranberries• 50 g plain flour• 75 g porridge oats• 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda• 1/2 tsp salt Method: 1. Preheat the oven to 180 C/gas mark 4. 2. Cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir in … Continue reading Lockdown Baking | Oat and Cranberry Cookies
The Boy Child and I sat down and looked through his current scrapbook (I think it's Volume 6) and I was shocked to see that I hadn't added anything since our road trip to Normandy last October. I asked him what he wanted me to add and his first suggestion was ... Christmas. I turned … Continue reading Scrapbooking in 2020 #7
Added to our Covid-19 journal has been a spread about our attempt at making face masks. I filled one half of a 3x4 pocket with embellishments and stitched diagonally across it. (The embellishments are actually highlighting the other side of the spread, which details the scarcity of paracetamol.) We were suppose to have travelled to … Continue reading Covid-19 | The Journal | Part 2
Week 17: Week 6 of Lockdown and one of emotional highs and lows. There was the cooking to new recipes. There was the birth of our latest great-nephew; he arrived in dramatic style, in the car, in the car park of the hospital. Mummy delivered her own baby while Daddy was parking the car. All … Continue reading Project Life Revisited | Weeks 17 and 18
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