Somebody loves me..........

...........ME!

Christmas Mincemeat enough to share.......

..........if you want to!

2lbs (1kg) Dried Mixed Fruit

1lb (500gms) of Mixed Dried Apples Slices ~ Prunes ~

Dates ~ Figs ~ Apricots ~ Cranberries

(or anything of your choice) Chopped Finely (use scissors)

3 Grated Cooking Apples (just wash, don't peel)

8ozs (250grms) Dark Brown Sugar

Grated Nutmeg ~ Mixed Spice ~ Cinamon

Half Bottle of Brandy!

Put everything in and large bowl mix,

cover with a clean cloth, leave for about a week,

stirring at least twice daily and resist trying,

put into sterile jars.

Christmas is coming!

The Minehead Christmas lights

were turned on this year by........................

This man!

Johnny Kingdom

Not sure that was meant to happen!

The sausage trying to escape the Toad in the Hole!

The whole thing rising from the dish

either that, or I made too much mixture!

A Rose No More........

The Rose from

Monday 17th and Friday 21st November

postings is now heading for

the compost bin........poor thing it was so pretty

Watercolour painting III

I call this

"Looking Over Daisies"

I happened to walk in the garden the other day

and saw a lonely Daisy in the grass.

This is how I saw it.

Think I might stick to embroidery!

Every house should have one..........

Ours is made of china and is about 60years old!

And there's more pincusions!

Appliqued felt with buttonhole stitch

using patchwork samples from
www.strawberryfayre.co.uk

using embroidery stitiches on brown one

and appliqued with an over stitich

on red and white one

embroidered with stem stitch

Redwork

Kate Greenaway characters

stitched in Redwork

Sweet smell of rose...

The Rose from Mondays posting fully open

Two more!

Two more Pincushions

Sunset

Looking through the kitchen window

I saw this beautiful red sky

at 16.40 pm

There's always one............

........well two!

The last bit of cake mix!

Weigh three eggs,

the weight of the eggs in flour sugar and butter

Beat the sugar and butter, then add the eggs

fold in the flour

add a few chocolate drops

Divide into cake cases

Cook for about 20 minutes

180 degrees or gas 4

I found the icing recipe on Eleanor's blog ~

"Still Cutting Off Tabs"

(October 2008 post)

http://paperseaside.blogspot.com/

Last of the..........

........summer Roses from the garden

It's Struck Again!

FLAT SURFACE SYNDROME

Its a bit like that game - cover the items

and then guess what was there!

Sewing Machine

Record Player Turn Table

Poundland bag with assorted goodies

still from Wednesday afternoon

three items are for Jane

Various opened correspondence

and other paper work and patterns

Empty carriers

Tupperware bowl not put back in cupboard

Felt for Pincushions

Old Valve Amplifier in bits!

What we wore seventy years ago

Not sure about the matching hat, dress and SOCKS!

And there's more!

I have been making more knitted flowers!

Southern Fried Chicken

4 x Chicken Portions or
Pack of Chicken Pieces for making curries etc
Italian Herbs
2 or 3 Eggs
Flour
Bread Crumbs
Cooking Oil

3 Bowls

Bowl one - Break 2 eggs and whisk, add extra one if needed
Bowl two - Breadcrumbs and Italian Herbs mixed together
Bowl three - Flour

Dip the chicken in eggs,

cover in flour the shake off excess,

dip the chicken back into the eggs,

cover in the bread crumbs

Gently heat a little oil in a frying pan,

fry just browning the breadcrumbs,

put the chicken on a baking tray

Put chicken pieces into the oven to cook

200 degrees, gas 6 till cooked through,
MAKE sure the chicken is thoroughly cooked.

It's Only November!

12th November to be exact!

I'm sure when I was a child Christmas didn't

start until 1st December!

Armistice

at the Eleventh Hour,

on the Eleventh Day, of the Eleventh Month

We will remember them

The Soldier
If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England.

There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

By Rupert Brook 1887 - 1915

last sonnet written 1914

Searching for Worms

My husband reversed the car onto drive,

the wheel slipped off the edge so had to drive

out and start again, he managed to churn the

grass verge up in doing this.

As soon as he got out of the car and came indoors

this sweet little robin appeared spying the worms.

Ninety Years.............

Remembrance Sunday

Old fashioned style knitted baby blanket

I have put the pattern below for anyone to use,

but please only for personal use.

Please do not use it for commercial use.

8 x 50gram balls of Patons Fairytale 100% wool baby yarn
1 pair of 7.5 Knitting Needles
Abbreviations M = Make, K = Knit, KTog = Knit Two Together
Centre panel
Cast on 1 sttich
Next row - M1, K1
Next row - M1 K2
Next row - M1 K3
Continue this way until 107 Stitches
Next row - KTog, knit to end
Next row - KTog, knit to end
Continue this way until 1 stitch cast off.

Edge
Cast on 13 stitches with a different colour yarn, cut yarn

rejoin baby yarn and continue

Row one - K7, M1 KTog, M1, K4
Row two and every alternate row Knit
Row three -K6 (M1, KTog) twice, M1 K4
Row five - K5 (M1, KTog) three times, M1 K4
Row seven - K4 (M1, KTog) four times, M1 K4
Row nine - K3 (M1, KTog) five times, M1 K4

Row eleven - K4 (M1, KTog) five times, KTog K2
Row thirteen - K5 (M1, Ktog) four times, KTog K2
Row fifteen - K6 (M1, KTog) three times, KTog K2
Row seventeen - K7 (M1, KTog) twice, KTog K2
Row nineteen - K8 M1 (KTog) twice, K2
Row twenty - As row Two

Repeat 35 times more (36 Patterns in all)
Do Not cast off

When completed pick up the stitches from the other end

and undo the cast on row, making sure the knitting is not twisted.

With the two needles together pick up the first two stiches together

and knit, then then pick up the second two stitches and knit,

casting off loosely in the usual way

Count nine patterns, in the nineth pattern

thread a few stitches with a piece of matching wool.

Do this four times

Pull the ends together tightly and knot

these gathered pieces are placed on the corners

Pin the edging around the centre panel and stitch in place

For next year!

If I plant these next year do you think I will get 275 flowers?

Fireworks.....what fireworks?

Was it or was it not Guy Fawkes night last night?

Gun Powder Treason and Plot and all that........

I thought goodie I'll try and capture some

fireworks going off with my camera.

Well I waited, and waited but to no avail

no fireworks were seen,

but while I was waiting I thought I would

just point the camera and take photographs.

This was the results!

Autumn!

Greens and Browns of Autumn

Last leaf of Autumn

One of the last leaves of the Sweet Chestnut Tree

One of my favourites!

Here is one of the my most favourite books when I was a child

Christmas Annual

The forerunner of the Christmas Annual produce by the BBC

.......and I just had to have this one because

it was published the year I was born

In this annual you can read adventure stories

Make paper sculptures

and I have the remains of paper of a sculpture that had been started

Learn how to build bridges

Learn about lands far far away!

and many other interesting things is this fifth annual in this series -

we think we may another these somewhere in our house

amongst the other books.

Different sort.........

These are brooches that are made of enamel.

The centre one belonged to my grandmother.

They are very pretty, but they are a rarety!