Boot Fairs, New Fabric and Big Sums

Boot Fairs, New Fabric and Big Sums

We went to the boot fair at Polegate this morning. First time I’ve been for ages. I was on a mission to score some more purple themed fabric for the quilt I am making, I had decided I needed some more variety. Within a few minutes, I had found 5 fat quarters and...
Chicken & Vegetable Tart, delicious hot or cold

Chicken & Vegetable Tart, delicious hot or cold

Here is the recipe I promised you yesterday pastry 150g self raising flour, value flour 45p/1.5kg, 4p 75ml vegetable oil, £1.25 litre 9p filling 130g chicken, priced as in this post  99p 160g carrots, Asda SP £1.18p/2kg 9p 100g onion, Asda £1.08/2kg, 5p 3 eggs, Asda...
Smelly sandwiches

Smelly sandwiches

  For lunch today, I made the smelliest hoummous sandwich I have ever done! I purposely cooked extra chick peas last night so I could make hoummous today. I put the chickpeas in the food processor with a large tblsp of garlic/ginger paste, 2 tblsps of mustard oil...
Fruit, Floors and Gifts

Fruit, Floors and Gifts

Spotted these little fellas having a team bath this morning and took this picture of them through the window. Didn’t dare move in case I scared them off. DP has been working hard over the last two days getting the old tiles and hardboard off the kitchen floor....
Teething, rain and quilts

Teething, rain and quilts

There are still a few teething problems with the changeover of the blog to a new host. The subscriber widget on the right is one of them, it seems to be refusing to sign people up for some reason. I’m also not sure that the new posts are being emailed to people...
Dobbing, Dabbing, Snowdrops and Quilts

Dobbing, Dabbing, Snowdrops and Quilts

In addition to the soup post today, I thought I would give a bit of an update on the kitchen, and other things. As you can see from the picture, there was some ‘dobbing’ and ‘dabbing’ going on today as DP and SIL to be lined the new part of the kitchen with...
Airbourne, Divi & progress

Airbourne, Divi & progress

Yesterday morning, we set out to watch the Eastbourne Airbourne. It is 17 miles, but we allowed extra time as it would be busy. Several roads were shut for resurfacing and the traffic was horrendous. DP made one mistake by not parking in the park and ride, he wanted...
Woman’s Own, early apples and meal plans

Woman’s Own, early apples and meal plans

We are still waiting for the porting to the new host to be completed, nearly there now. It’s been ages since we spoke and I couldn’t wait any longer! There have been lots of things going on that I wanted to talk to you about and couldn’t. One of the...

A chilled out day

Lovely girly day with DD2 today. We did some more of the wedding invitations, I’ll be able to show you the completed article soon. They’re looking really really good, and of course totally unique. Wonder how much you’d have to pay for a printer to do...