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?