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Seasonal Fridge-Art: ‘Sumer is Icumen In’
Here’s another one of Mum’s seasonal Fridge-art installments. These pop-up on her fridge from time to time, with art or verses usually spelled out in magnetic scrabble tiles. I never know what is going to pop-up and when I stayed with Mum in early summer I discovered this… Right now you are […]
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Birthday Baking Gifts
My previous blog post was about my birthday cake – Plum and Coconut Cake with Lemon Syrup, made by Mum. She packaged up the freshly made cake, travelled 3 hours by bus, and hand-delivered it to me. This was very special indeed, and I was also lucky enough to be spoiled with specially baked […]
Cupcakes from Petit Fours
I have discovered that cupcakes are very good for improving staff morale; they are very much mini-morale-boosters. Twice now, my work-team have placed orders at Petit Fours for cupcakes to bring back to the office. Cupcakes also strengthen our inter-team communication, and task management responsibilities through gathering the orders and phoning in the order, […]
Posted in Cakes and Cupcakes, Pot Luck (miscellaneous)
Seasonal Fridge Art: Winter
It is now the middle of winter and on a recent visit to Mum’s I found, on her fridge, another piece of seasonal art. The “artist” says the bit about Jack Frost biting is reflected in the wording forming a mouth shape, complete with teeth. Just like Mum’s Falling Autumn poem (see a previous […]
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Rustic Bird-house
Here is the most gorgeously quaint bird-house which I spotted at a local garden centre. It features a tiny blue painted door, complete with doorknob, windows on all sides, and it even sports extra details on the rusty roof – eccentric chimneys, and a rusty crooked aerial. It is very provincial in appearance, having […]
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