Author Archives: Becky

My interest is always piqued by news items concerning food and this week it seems that McDonalds have got a problem in the USA. There have been several people from many states in the western part of the country who have become ill and one person has died after eating their quarter pounder burgers. TheContinue reading “E-coli again.”

Have you heard that we’re storing our cans the wrong way up? It seems someone has researched and experimented resulting in this surprising discovery. Now, forgive me, but if I store cans upside down on the shelves of the pantry, the labels will be tricky to read and I’m going to develop a stiff neck.Continue reading “Topsy-turvey”

This has been a strange year in our garden with many plants of all kinds lost to slugs and snails. We had an almost complete mange tout crop failure and the first French bean seedlings disappeared as they began to grow. The second seedlings were nursed as they appeared and although some of the baseContinue reading “Harvest time.”

All this week I’ve been watching reels, videos and news footage about the devastation left by hurricane Helene. She barrelled up through Florida, Georgia, the Carolina’s and Tennessee leaving a trail of destruction and flooding like I’ve never seen before. People were and still are struggling to make sense of what has happened to theirContinue reading “Water.”

How can we have been home for a week already? There’s always lots to catch up with, like laundry and weeds, but this week has flown by and here we are expecting our flock to descend on us for a family celebration. As usual there’s cake to consider and a special request has resulted inContinue reading “Time flies!”

We’ve spent the last few days in France, revisiting old haunts – places I first came across when I accompanied a school trip from Barnet to Anizy le Chateau, a small town north east of Paris. We stayed in Laon this week, visiting the enormous cathedral and ramparts, then Chauny, Coucy le Chateau and Soissons,Continue reading “Just back!”

The weather in our little seaside town has taken a change for the worse this week. We’ve been subjected to “an icy blast” and my goodness it’s been cold… so cold that the heating had to tested out last night. Apparently it’s going to improve, but we’ll have to wait and see. The French beansContinue reading “Brr….”

As usual we have more tomatoes this year than we really need. That’s not a problem though as our young people are always ready to accept bags of proper, tomatoey tomatoes. The mangetout peas weren’t great, but the French beans have made up for that and are delicious cold in a salad after being brieflyContinue reading “Crops!”

Every time I go to the cupboard to pick up a clean tea-towel, I’m very aware of the top shelf. There are things up there which must have been sitting unused for the best part of thirteen years. I’m sure we all have stuff we’ve put away and forgotten about, don’t we? Amongst the emptyContinue reading “A rediscovery.”

This week we were lucky to eat with some good friends from Middle England. They like our little seaside town and enjoy visiting nearby places of interest. But this week they were very keen to try the new Marco Pierre White hotel and restaurant which has recently opened. I checked out the menu and managedContinue reading “Another Tuesday…”