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Snow-Shoes
It all began with one of those meanders along the highways and byways of the Interwebs when you can't remember how on earth you ended up where you have done, but you feel rather pleased at your...
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A Patchwork Story
Have you had defining moments of inspiration that set you off down a particular creative path? While much creative inspiration, I'm sure, is absorbed gradually and by a sort of process of subconscious...
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If all the world was paper, and all the sea was ink...
... if all the trees were bread and cheesewhat should we have to drink?Do you remember that absurd nursery rhyme? I thought of it today after a little printing foray landed me in a sea of blue ink...
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Ragged Lavender Hearts
I know it's a long time since Mrs Tittlemouse got her act together and posted anything but here I am, with a little creative idea that I thought you might like, if you're still reading, that is, and I...
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Hygge - Celebrating the Cold, the Bleak and the Blissful
Hygge, the Danish concept of cosiness in winter seems to have become mainstream in the UK. Books, blogs, magazines, knitting and clothing catalogues are all exhibiting their hyggelig credentials. I...
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Of Tweed and Tablet
So... the tweed first. A few years ago I picked up a small bundle of fat quarters of Jamiesons Shetland tweed fabric at the Knitting And Stitching Show. I wasn't sure what to do with them - it was just...
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Tweed (again) and Russian Apple Streusel Cake
Both the Scots and the Russians have got the art of surviving and thriving in a long, cold winter down to a fine art, although of course, Russia's cold makes Scotland's look like amateursville.I broke...
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Cucina Povera
Lots of good causes now seem to have their own official day in the calendar. Sunday 28th May 2017 is this year's World Hunger Day. Alongside raising awareness, and encouragement to give to...
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£1-a-day Food Challenge - Above or Below the Line?
So, the end of May and the start of my £1 a day food challenge, inspired by The Hunger Project's campaign is not that far away. One of the questions that has been bothering me is whether my stint of...
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Shopping - No Small Change
What are your preferred food-shopping habits? Are you a devotee of On-Line-delivered-to-your-door supermarket shopping or do you prefer to shop in person, in a bricks and mortar store? Are you loyal to...
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£1-a-day Food Challenge 2017: Counting down
My £1-a-day food challenge takes off in a couple of days. I've decided to run it from Thursday to Tuesday, across the weekend even though it's a Bank Holiday one. I am looking forward to it actually,...
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£1-a-day Food Challenge 2017: Day 1
So this evening sees the end of Day 1 of my £1-a-day Food Challenge and so far, I'm surviving reasonably happily on my iron rations. Just have to see if I can keep it going! What I notice already is...
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£1-a-day Food Challenge 2017: Day 2
As you will see, if you read about Day 1, Day 2's menu on my £1-a-day Food Challenge is quite similar. In fact generating variety has proved one of the more difficult aspects of the challenge. I don't...
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£1-a-day Food Challenge 2017: Day 3
At weekends, instead of my quick everyday porridge of porridge oats ground finely, mixed with milk and blasted in the microwave for a few brief bursts, I usually make a slow-cooked version with proper...
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£1-a-day Food Challenge 2017: Day 4
Thrifty cinnamon honeySomeone kindly gave me a wonderful jar of Hungarian cinnamon honey last Christmas. A spoonful of it on top of my weekend slow-cooked porridge is unbeatable but it's fiendishly...
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£1-a-day Food Challenge 2017: Day 5
There's been a lot of watering down and out in the last five days - watering down the soya milk I have in my tea, watering down the tea itself, watering out milk bottles and soya milk cartons, watering...
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£1-a-day Food Challenge 2017: Day 6
Today is the last day of my £1-a-day Food Challenge. Quite a relief to see it arrive, I have to say and even more of a relief to see it finishing! And immediately I think that, or say that to myself, I...
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The evening after ...
The evening after the six days before...... bliss!на здоровье!To health!E x
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£1-a-day Food Challenge - Follow Up and "Trucs" of the trade
I intended to write this post months ago. Actually, I did write most of it months ago, but life then got rather busy, as it does, and so I never got round to finishing it. On the basis of better late...
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"Against the dying of the light..."
Do you know that poem by Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night"? Written for the poet's ageing father, slowly losing his sight, the poem is a brave paean against the gathering darkness...
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