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Friday Night Cocktail

I love my home city and I love gin and The Londoner combines both..   I saw this here and had to try it. It was one of my birthday party cocktails and whilst I would only drink one they … Continue reading

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Oli and the animals

On Saturday, the family (me, Ma, Ben, Laura and Oli) went to Whipsnade. It was a lovely day, the nephew was less than impressed with the ‘new, red buggy’ and I found his tantrum about sitting in it “I’m too … Continue reading

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Custard Powder Cake

  The Friday before my birthday I had a party, it involved people, cocktails, pizza and cake. The cakes were, ginger muffins, pavlova and this cake. I knew I would be making the cake the day before the party and … Continue reading

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Friday Evening by the River

I love London, especially when it’s warm and sunny and friends ask you to join them for a drink by the river… it was so good to see T & C and catch up..          

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Sunday Music

Richard Hawley – Down into the Woods Years ago, Fran told me about hear a Rolling Stones song on the radio. She knew it was the Rolling Stones she knew that she hadn’t heard it before.  I thought about that … Continue reading

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Friday Night Cocktail

The Nicola 6 Cause it was my birthday on 6th August and I’m called Nicola. Also it has pimms and cucumber in it and one day I’m going to make it with gin to see what it tastes like.   … Continue reading

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What I did last night

I went to Sarah’s and drank fizz and ate fish and chips.. Instead of doing anything useful at home. It was lovely to see her and catch up on all the news, gossip and general excitement.

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A birthday in pictures…

  Oli, later on we made cakes (he’s good at cracking eggs and eating choc chips!)   Tabitha   Murphy   Saturday was the child friendly celebration, there aren’t any pictures of Friday night, but it was lovely and left … Continue reading

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Birthday….

It’s my birthday today. Also celebrating birthdays today are The American Bar at the Savoy, (105 years older than me!), the World Wide Web (go google Tim Berners-Lee!), Tennyson, and Jamaica which celebrates 50 years of independence. So I’m in … Continue reading

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Sunday Music

Etta James. Because I heard it on the radio this morning and I remembered how much I like it.

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