Have you any wool...............

My friend Dawn asked me the other day.........

You know that knitting I was doing........
Yes........

Would you sew it together.........?

OK I said.....

Museli Biscuits

A wet Wednesday afternoon, what do you do, you make Muesli Biscuits, they are very quick to make! The recipe is from a really lovely book called Mary Berry's Cakes and Biscuits. I use the recipe plus half again and make eight very large biscuits.

Recipe according to Mary Berry - 4 ozs Butter, 2 ozs Sugar, One good tablespoon of Golden Syrup (put the spoon into hot water first), 4 ozs Self -raising Flour, 4 ozs Breakfast Muesli.

Put butter, sugar and syrup in a pan and heat gently until the butter has melted. Measure the remaining ingredients into a large bowl the pour in the melted mixture and stir well until thoroughly mixed. Spoon teaspoonfuls of the mixture onto prepared baking sheets leaving plenty of room. (We prefer large biscuits so I use a tablespoon!) Cook for about 15 - 20minutes

depending on the size of biscuit until golden brown

325 degrees F - 160 degrees C - Gas 3

Uncooked Mixture

Just come out of the oven!


Cooled ready for EATING

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If you go down in the woods today,
You're sure of a big surprise.
here are two new items just been put in the shop

They don't do things like they use to..................

Whenever my friend Meg and her family go on holiday she leaves me with a key to go into her house and feed the Cats............, the Gerbils.................... and the African Land Snails........quite yuckky! The Snails that is!

Meg always brings me a thank you pressie, this pressie was a lovely surprise as I often look at this book whenever I see them on it book shelf, but the funny thing is Meg has never seen me look at this particular book so it was a lovely surprise. For a long time now I have been very interested in the Art Deco of the 30's, the straight lines the angular patterns, and the life during the war, in fact sometimes I read old wartime cookery books for inspiration and something healthy to eat that is slightly different!

No-one wears hats like this any more

Doing the laundry is a task in itself

These look fiddly to make but they look fun

I thought this way of exercising was really funny - does anyone do this?

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I thought I would have go at The Further Adventures of the Thrifty Mrs Menu Challenge. I go to Tesco with a comprehensive shopping list. I have an item listed "Fruit & Veg"! Tescos often have a three for two off or a buy one get on free, these offers I tend to go for, I also try and buy my fruit and veg without wrapping and a sell by date, my theory with fruit and veg is if its gone mouldy then its gone off, and I try not to let it get that far! We are not vegetarians but we do eat a lot of fruit and veg. There is only two of us in the house now so sometimes I make something last two days.

My menu for this week is:-

Saturday - Ploughmans to eat up last weeks salad
Sunday - Salmon with potatoes and salad or peas - £3 Tescos
Monday - Sausages (Half Packet) Potatoes & Peas
Tuesday - Sausages (Half Packet) Stir Fry & Potatoes (Forgot to buy noodles) (Stir Fry, Sauce and Noodles/Potatoes were on offer - buy any three items for £2.50)
Wednesday - Egg and Chips Alex goes out this evening
Thursday - Ratatouille and Lamb chops and Potatoes
Friday - Ratatouille Chicken/Pork chops or whatever is at the Farmers Market

I probably won't go to Tescos now till about three weeks time, I'll buy locally for anything I need like lettuce etc. - I expect I will buy whatever the Farmers Market has to offer till then.

Tote Bag

Just recently have been making bags in 100% cotton
they are now for sale on my other blog
http://kcscourtyard.blogspot.com

.......and the winner is........ME!

First of all I would like to thank Sal of

http://salssnippets.blogspot.com/

For these lovely gifts after winning her Giveaway

The winner of my Giveaway which Alex picked is MelMel of

http://facebook-melmel.blogspot.com/

Please could email your address

We went into Tescos this afternoon

after taking the grass-cutting to the recycling centre

I picked this bunch of flowers reduced from £5 to £1.25

Another of proud nanny's new favourite little person!

This week has been a really good week because Michela

http://littlesecretsfrommygarden.blogspot.com/

sent me an award too

I have to give my five obsessions which are

1) - Spending too much time on the computer

2) - Reading too many lovely Blogs

3) - Eating cake

4) Like Michela making sure I'm punctual!

and....until recently I did not have a fifth obsession but I have now

5) My new grand-daughter Caitlin

I pass this award to :-

Fliss at http://joshyandbelle.blogspot.com/

Jackie at http://lavenderjack.wordpress.com/

Sal at http://salssnippets.blogspot.com/

Eleanor at http://paperseaside.blogspot.com/

Vivi at http://vivi5sentidos.blogspot.com/

Giveaway!

I just thought I would remind all you lovely bloggers about the "Giveaway" I did last Friday 7th August entitled "Pondering........." - if you leave a comment on that particular post I will enter you all in the draw.

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Caitlin
.......just before being brought home from the hospital.......

So Gorgeous..............

Alex and Julie would like to

announce the arrival of our Grand-Daughter