Tag Archives: festive

little logs

By Lucy | Published December 20, 2009

recipe here. Go very well with A Muppet Christmas Carol, lots of snow outside and a roaring fire :D Related posts:sunny piremembrance21 years

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getting a bit festive

By Lucy | Published December 11, 2009

Charlotte’s mince pies and chocolate logs made by a friend… said logs went very well with A Christmas Carol in 3D. Wonderful film, amazing having snow falling all round us like that Related posts:potter and picatkins and cheezeof Russians and swans

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Summer Solstice

By Lucy | Published June 21, 2009

Celebrated by lying in the sun, on the grass all afternoon… very blissful. Chocolate mint nut mylk: Handful cacao nibs, few brazil nuts, a few springs of mint, a little agave, water… very nice, though very rich. Next time will try hemp seeds instead of nuts and vanilla instead of agave Related posts:a casserole and [...]

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Beltane

By Lucy | Published May 1, 2009

mouseover:  Related posts:WW2, purple soup and festive chocssnow…toast, Valentine cookies and a cheesecake

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Christmas 2008

By Lucy | Published December 26, 2008

Had lovely time with family menu added by request   starter: honeydew and cantaloupe melons with pomegranate. main: chestnut and red wine pate encroute – a Rose Elliot recipe from Vegan Feasts; fennel and carrot in white sauce (mustard, tahini, stock cube in mix); roast potatoes; sprouts; sage, rosemary and onion stuffing; redwood offcut sausages [...]

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seasonal and busy

By Lucy | Published December 8, 2008

not exactly festive but I took these pics in St. Nicholas churchyard the other day and I like them Went to the panto at HMT – outside, beforehand: We sat in a box – was amazed to discover that it was almost the same price as the stalls would have been for all of us. [...]

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Halloween 2008

By Lucy | Published October 31, 2008

a gentle start to the day:  getting costumed up: then off to the party!! Moonrabbit Lucy’s fabulous animatronic butler – speaks, breathes, turns head and eyes…   and a little education did happen too Daytime pics of graves as I, correctly, doubted my camera’s night-time abilities… The witches walk took place in the dark with [...]

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summer solstice

By Lucy | Published June 21, 2008

We do actually eat blue stars  Based on recipe here studying sonnets here just now. Apparently in the 1590’s May did extend into what is now our June so not too inappropriate: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of [...]

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Burns Night

By admin | Published January 25, 2008

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e’er untie the filial band That knits me thy rugged strand! (The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Sir Walter Scott) After dancing [...]

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Crimbo

By admin | Published December 25, 2007

  Totally neglected to photograph the eight different ice creams (Booja Booja’s ’stuff in a tub’ is very good indeed) Rachel and Ben brought and the six bottles of wine from my Mum and Dad but they are/were gorgeous too Related posts:ice cream bombechocolate rice pudlovely things

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