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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Friday Night Cocktail
This is a Blinker. Rye whiskey, grapefruit juice, grenadine. The recipe is from the Kitchn. It’s quite yum. What 2 oz rye whiskey 1 oz freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice 1 teaspoon grenadine Lemon peel to garnish How Fill a shaker … Continue reading
Posted in Booze
Tagged Friday Night Cocktail, grapefruit juice, grenadine, Rye Whiskey, The Blinker
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Friday Links
Happy Friday! I don’t know about anyone else but I’m happy to see the back of this week and this month! My plan for the day is to find people I can talk to about last night’s ‘theatre’ Corialanus, which … Continue reading
Posted in Links
Tagged Buzzfeed, Climate Change, gin, King Lear, Simon Russell Beale, stoke on trent, The Guardian, The National Theatre, XKCD
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What I’ve Read – January 2014
Consider the Nightingale – Rumer Gooden So we read Thursday’s Child and then I remembered this one. It’s a little fairytale-ish but none the worse for that. All Change – Elizabeth Jane Howard The last of the Cazalet books. Much … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reading in 2014
Tagged 2014, 2014 books, All Change, Bria Quinlan, Consider the Nightingale, Elisa Nalder, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Escape from Eden, In the Bleak Midwinter, Julia Spencer-Flemming, M.R. Carey, reading, reading in 2014, Rumer Godden, Secret Girlfriend, The Girl with All the Gifts, Through the Ever Night, Veronica Rossi
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Stuff I Can’t Live Without….
…this month. 1) These boots. I am the barefoot flip flop queen and really hate closed in shoes. Winter is a trial for my poor feet. That said I ordered these after Christmas and I wear them whenever I can. … Continue reading
Posted in How I Live, Things I Like
Tagged boots, breakfast pots, Clarks, examine, Mondaine, MUA, stuff I love, stuff that works for me, Superdrug, Undress Your Skin Foundation, watches
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Currently wearing.
This month I seem to be wearing this necklace most often.. It was a present from Christelle (most of my favourite jewellery comes from my lovely friends!) and what I like about this is that I can wear it the other … Continue reading
Posted in How I Live, Random, Things I Like
Tagged blue, current favourite necklace, jewellery, presents
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Pancetta, Onion and Spinach Pasta
This was my dinner on Saturday night. There was no recipe and no plan but it was so good. Sometimes the meals you throw together end up tasting the best and I was so surprised by how good this tasted. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Food
Tagged cooking, food, onions, pancetta, pasta, quick dinners, spinach, thrown together dinner
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Weekend Tasklist – What I Did
Another good weekend. Keeping the house tidy during the week is making the cleaning at the weekend a doddle. There was stuff that didn’t get done (a white wash, the pictures in the kitchen) but the washing goes … Continue reading
Posted in Home, How I Live
Tagged clean, housework, making sure that I do the housework, organisation, tidy, Weekend Task List, weekend tasks
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The Weekend
Good morning and welcome to Monday and the last week of January! I’m always glad to see the end of January, it feels like a long and dull month, ok it does have the birthdays of some of my favourite … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Home, How I Live
Tagged Coriolanus, life, NT live, plans for the week, stuff happening, the weekend
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Weekend Tasklist
Every week it’s the same thing… In some ways this is a repeat of last week, I’m out tonight and most of tomorrow, so I don’t know how much of this will get done, the house is more than reasonably … Continue reading
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Tagged clean, housework, making sure that I do the housework, organisation, tidy, Weekend Task List, weekend tasks
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Make your own gin! Anyone want to do this or is it just me? City of London Gin Lab Experience
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