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At the weekend I decided to make a bulk batch of Slo-bol – slow-cooked bolognaise sauce. I try to keep a supply of properly labelled boxes in the freezer but we’d run out. Carrots and celery were on the shopping list for the soffrito and it occurred to me that since we’re now in saladContinue reading “All about the space…”

We’re lucky in this part of sleepy Suffolk as we have a number of lovely places to visit on sunny summer days – and on not-such-nice days too. One of them is the National Trust site just outside Woodbridge where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was found in 1939. The outbreak of war delayed progress withContinue reading “Sutton Hoo.”

In the past I’ve never been able to describe anything as a trip, because that means I might have “had a fall”. We always spoke of school “visits” or “excursions”, never trips! But this week we had a visit to a garden centre run by a lovely family I’ve known for a very long time.Continue reading “Tuesday’s trip.”

It seems that a large number of people in Britain have been affected by the latest outbreak of E.coli which is caused by bacteria normally living in human and animal intestines. It causes very unpleasant symptoms and anyone suffering with it should stay at home until the symptoms have gone, as well as staying awayContinue reading “E.coli in the news again.”

… this time from a trip to the “frozen north”. It was a bit chilly to be honest considering it’s early June, but it didn’t stop us from having a lovely time. We had lunch at a pub by the river Dee, which was recommended to us by a cheerful antique dealer, but enjoyed longContinue reading “Just back…”

This weather is such a trial. Whilst we’ve had some lovely days with warm sunshine, we seem to have had more than our fair share of rain and chill. I have to confess that our central heating clicked in last night and I enjoyed the warm toastie feeling so much that we let it happenContinue reading “Welcome summer!”

During the course of the week I like to keep an eye on my website homepage, not only looking at what’s been downloaded and which country views have come from, but also to see if there’s a red dot in the top right hand corner. This means that someone has made a comment and inContinue reading “Really?”

I’d planned to tell you about our soggy Tuesday Trip to Woodbridge but so much has happened. There have been several food recalls due to contamination by bacteria in one case and glass in another. Add to that the situation in Devon with water unfit to drink, yet those affected were told to drink more…Continue reading “Keep it simple…”

Listening to a podcast this week doctor Michael Mosely suggested that by changing just one thing in our lifestyle we can greatly improve our health. His suggestion that day was that we should cook from scratch more often than we currently do. Not only would that reduce the quantity of ultra processed foods that weContinue reading “Just one thing…”

Do we take enough notice of warnings concerning food products I wonder? Do we even see them? This week Waitrose recalled their own brand “salted dairy butter”. There was a small notice in their free weekly newspaper, placed just next to the crossword, near the back and very easily missed. Apparently there is the potentialContinue reading “Warning!”