Monday, October 31, 2011

In Dublins Fair City............




where the girls are so pretty I first set my eyes on Sweet Molly Malone . Just back from a fab weekend in Dublin , the weather was kind with only a little precipitation ! And what beautiful City , music , lots of literature , great architecture and of course Guinness .A few photos as a taster more narrative another day - I am I fear in need of some beauty sleep.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Listening............


to Lana Del Ray and Miles Kane - fab new music such talent around its so good But still have time for some old favourites and that means Al Green - I know but I am a child of the seventies !!! My picture is a post of my favourite dancer so how could it be that one man has so much charisma ...............

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Apple & Sage Jelly


Just a little update on the Apple & Sage Jelly - wow what a fabulously easy recipe and I am now looking fondly at six beautiful jars of amber coloured jelly - which I must admit tastes delicious very subtle flavours but will be a great foil to pork or
any cold meat infact and yes cheese too I think !

Sunday, October 23, 2011

A Sunday of Simple Pleasures


Sometimes days seem to be so right and today was one of those beautiful English Autumn days when you wake to a few weak rays of sunshine and the glorious colours of leaves still precariously attached to the trees despite the determined efforts of the breeze ! A coffee and the Sunday papers were the start of the day - papers which will be read throughout the week - well you cannot possibly manage them in the one day ! Then on the radio came the sounds of a familiar song and all at once I was transported back to my own personal nostalgia trip - music has the power to evoke a memory in an instant - and I am always captured instantly - music can bring tears of laughter , sadness , evoke memories but its always a pleasure to me even if sometimes it is bitter sweet . The song today was by the "Commodores" - Easy on a Sunday Morning - nothing else to say !
Todays domestic goddess project was to use up all the fallen apples I have stored in my garage - Apple Jelly with Sage is the order of the day - and now it is happily draining through my homemade jelly bag to be finished tomorrow - if all goes according to plan I will post the recipe but I had a lovely time chopping 5lbs of apples - soooooo theraputic . To me the fun of any cooking is spending the time chopping , mixing , beating , kneading whatever it may be it will be done by my fair hand .
And finally my other acheivment - which gave me pleasure was to load a photo onto my blog - hopefully the first of many . However I had to resort to using my lap top - have not yet discovered how to load photos from my I pad - still Rome wasn't built in a day .
So pretty - no what shall I cook with you ...........................

Monday, October 17, 2011

Trepidation

Well at last I am here writing my first "post" and believe me it has been a long time in it's inception . I had intended too launch myself upon the blogging world over 12 months ago but I being a little challenged by all this technology needed more than a little assistance in the matter. Helped by my adorable Sister who has much more technique And experience in this field she had to literally set up my account !

I have been fascinated by how many people share such interesting things , whilst I may have just started to dip my toe into blogging myself I have enjoyed reading about all manner of subjects in the intervening 12 months .

Currently my dilemma is to how do I add photos , make the blog look arty and appealing to, me let alone any random reader, and it is why with some trepidation I will press the "post" button because I am not entirely convinced that this will appear . If it works it will be my eureka moment and the beginning of many happy hours .........