Today I finally achieved something I’ve been trying to do for over a year. I finally found a cache in my local park. I first looked for this cache back in February last year. At the time I got distracted by a log with a hole drilled into it so thought that was the cache… Continue reading If at first you don’t succeed…
This is the recipe I make most often as they’re relatively quick and very tasty. It’s based on a Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe I found in one of my Be-Ro cook books but as usual for me I’ve tweaked it a little. The original recipe uses soft brown sugar, but I’ve found demerara sugar gives… Continue reading Chocolate Chip Cookies
I had a day off, Goblin was in school, the weather was gorgeous, so I made a picnic and Frog and I headed to the local park. I had an ulterior motive. I’ve found 3 caches in this park already, but there’s 2 that I’ve never found and several others on a path nearby that… Continue reading Caches on high
Back in 2009 I discovered Geocaching. I thought it was just a US based thing but when I brought up the geocaching map I saw there were lots of caches near where I live, including one in the field right behind my house. I was fascinated, but I had no GPS device so I was… Continue reading Geocaching
The WI group I’m involved with is planning on doing some yarnbombing for Armed Forces Day. This means we need a lot of poppies. I scoured the internet for poppy patterns and tried several but the problem was they were almost all designed to be worn, look pretty and for people to only make 1 or 2.… Continue reading Crochet Poppy
Yes, I’m a rubbish blogger. Can we just leave it at that and move on? The post title refers to me. It’s what my Dad would regularly say about me as a child. I did cry a lot. But then my Dad and big brother did torment me a lot. As an example my nickname was… Continue reading “You’re only happy when you’re miserable”
Many years ago I came across the blog of Gretel Parker. I was captivated by her illustrations, which appear so simple but convey so much emotion. I carried on reading her blog, admiring her love of the simple things in life, the hard struggle it is to be an artist, and occasionally getting glimpses into… Continue reading A hero in need
I’ve been trying to write this post for days, but I’m afraid it just makes me sound like some odd hippie witch wierdo. I’ve told people about it in the past and I’m sure it’s the conclusion they come to. I’m odd, and a bit of a hippie, and possibly a wierdo, but the witchcraft… Continue reading Clairvoyant Hippie Witch
For Lent this year I decided to give up buying biscuits. Not eating biscuits, just buying them. I can eat as many as I like, so long as I’ve made them myself or if I’m visiting family then I’ll eat the biscuits they’ve bought. Frog is breastfed, and biscuit consumption is an essential part of… Continue reading When is a tablespoon not a tablespoon?
These are Frogs new Favourite Thing. For a couple of weeks he’s been grumpy, windy and had green nappies, but he’s also really wheezy, he has bronciolitus. I put the grumpiness all down to being ill, then today I saw them. One little tooth has popped through and the second isn’t far behind. Coincidentally my… Continue reading Nelson
Land of Sticks 