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Chutney!

Posted 18th July 2009 at 12:44 PM by Georginazn

It is feeling so autumnal here, cold, grey and blowy - I can't get chutney off my mind. there are certain tasks, I associate with the seasons - Marmalade is Winter, Knitting and Chutney are Autumn, Strawberry jam and Elderflower Cordial are summer, seed sowing is Spring.
So as I am too early for the green tomato glut, I am going to make some Rhubarb and Ginger chutney. I already have industrial quantities of vinegar that I use for cleaning, and a store of empty jars, and I bought a mega-bag...
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Radio reception is rubbish

Posted 10th July 2009 at 05:10 PM by Georginazn

This is the 21st century after all! Man has been to the moon, animals have been cloned, babies born from a test tube conception, and you can use a mobile up Kilimanjaro - but can I do Popmaster between Gloucester and Swindon? No I cannot. Can I hear the play on Radio 4 between Knighton and Newtown? No I cannot.
The digital switchover is, by all accounts a bit of a lame duck, and FM can be brilliant - so come on radio stations - get boosting!!!
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Roses and flowers for cutting

Posted 1st July 2009 at 02:54 PM by Georginazn

I love this time of year because roses are my favourite flower. I go round the garden taking one flower from each shrub to create multicoloured (but Oh! So subtle) posies. I wouldn't be without the ancient (lineage wise)and healthy red rose of Lancaster (actually deep pink) Rosa Gallica Officianalis. If you only have space for one - I recommend it. This year I have been slowly constructing raised beds from old sleepers, that I intend to use for cut flowers a la Sarah Raven (on a small scale)...
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Living with honour

Posted 19th June 2009 at 09:00 AM by Georginazn

I'm a bit disheartened by the response to a post about getting paid more by a company than you should have been, and whether to refund. I seem to be a lone voice in thinking it right and fair to be honest.
When I first left my sleepy hometown, to live in the Big Smoke, I found a little slip of paper in my luggage when I unpacked. On it was a poem my father had written and I wish I still had that slip of paper. It may be tucked away somewhere, mislaid in one of the twenty odd moves since....
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Oops

Posted 16th June 2009 at 09:33 AM by Georginazn

Failed in my attempt to keep it tight in the first half of the month. Here we are half way through and I am strapped! See, I succumbed to the Parmesan - but it goes so well with Asparagus!
I did have to buy Tesco's entire stock of Spelt Puff Pastry. Puff pastry is, to me, the Holy Grail of wheat intolerant living, and DH can cope with spelt. When I say entire stock - three packs - two in the freezer and one baked under a layer of farm shop Asparagus - so of course I had to have Parmesan..........
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