I am up a hill. There is a gentle breeze and it is so, so quiet. It is fabulous.

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Rain rain rain! And then sun. The vegetables like this :-)

Courgette and red pepper bake

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I seem to have developed a habit (or an odd mental and visual quirk, or whatever) of misreading things. When this happens, my brain transposes letters. Usually, I manage to sort it out fairly quickly, but occasionally, the misreading is actually quite sweet, such as today outside Lincoln Cathedral where I thought I saw a Snug Eucharist being ( Read more... )

Those of you who are on the friends lists of the fabulous bingo_mcdingo and mockduck will know that the two of them organised a Livejournal Secret Santa. It was a brilliant idea and there has been lots of plotting going on. I still have no idea who my Secret Santa was, but my gift was a package of delicious squishy cookies and Bee Wilson's Swindled: From Poison Sweets ( Read more... )

Small Hare announced that he had spiky pie for lunch at nursery. It turned out to be enchiladas. Spiky pie sounds much more exciting, though.

What do you think would be in a spiky pie?

This is the best news I've had in ages.

This site is brilliant! I particularly like the fact that there are two different types of whale.

Mr H took Small Hare to Mini Music Makers at Stamford Arts Centre today. The Arts Centre cafe is one of those places where mums with prams congregate before various messy play activities and toddler music groups, and there has been a rash of snotty notices in the cafe about how 'mums' {sic} need to take reponsibility for their children's behaviour ( Read more... )

Heard in Morrisons, in Alnwick: 'Ian McEwan to Fresh Produce please, Ian McEwan to Fresh Produce'.