Remember being little and having a bajillion (real number, look it up) rubber stamps? Yes, me too. They used to make Sunday morning letter writing (ah, boarding school) more about the artistry than the actual letter. We’d pool our resources of stamps and ink-in-all-colours-of-the-rainbow and get all ArtAttack. Well, I recently started getting all excited about them … Continue reading
There’s not much better than a quality charity shop find, is there? With this in mind, I found myself wandering into the Barnardos on the Cowley Road the other evening after work. It used to have a vintage section, which then disappeared and has now, miraculously, reappeared. All very exciting but, thanks to a recent … Continue reading
Rolling along in my automobile … and I’m hungry. This weekend, Kate and I are off to Kent and there’s the old ‘got to leave now before it gets sticky, no time for tea!’ vs ‘let’s eat now, let the traffic flow and then get home late’ debate. Personally, I think it’s a case of … Continue reading
Dear seasoned reader(s), It’s been an embarrassingly long time since I posted anything … 9 months to be precise. And no, it’s not because I’ve gone off and procreated. I have absolutely no excuse whatsoever, shamefully, I just don’t seem to have posted anything. So! What to do about this? Well, I’ve changed the look … Continue reading
That’s the thing about pudding, isn’t it? you never really plan it, so you don’t tend to have anything in the fridge ready. Don’t get me wrong, when people come round for dinner, I’m ready – I have chocolate and fruit and cream and meringue concoctions spilling from work surfaces. But on a normal night, … Continue reading
Sometimes you need to eat something green. Surprisingly, since being basically veggie, this need is greater than ever as I seem to have a lot of carbs – pasta and something, rice and something, you know how it is. On a normal day my diet’s never overly unhealthy – since I eat veggie 90% of … Continue reading
“How was your holiday? What did you get up to?” asked anyone I spoke to mid moan about being back. “Oh, you know, not much, saw some temples, ate too much food, drank far too much – the usual!” was all I could come up with. And thinking back on it now, nearly two weeks … Continue reading
Well, it’s been a while since the last post and that’s because I’ve been on holiday. It was back to Oxford with a bit of a bump on Tuesday and straight into work on Wednesday. Naturally, there wasn’t a morsel to be had in the fridge, TOH having cleaned it out good and proper in … Continue reading
A few weekends ago I went on a trip to Suffolk with TOH and his parents. Ostensibly, it was as a present from us to them for their 40th wedding anniversary – a night under ‘glampas’ at our favourite campsite, Alde Garden, somewhere near Southwold and Aldeburgh. We’d been there the year before for my … Continue reading
A few months ago now, I got an email from Luciana, TOH’s best friend’s OH, asking me what on Earth she could do with a massive jar of leftover tahini she had sitting in the fridge. Now, tahini’s a funny beast. I’m not entirely sure what use it has other than dressings, binding agent or, … Continue reading
The Peas Kneas 