Archive for July, 2009

Freedom

Its all official and legal,my son is finally on the road.When I bought my new car back in sept 2008, my son was about to take his driving test.
So I decided to keep my old car for him.
Never thinking for one moment that it would be another year before he actually passed.I did begin to [...]

One out of Three !

The Birds may have eaten all my GooseberriesMy Bottle Brush plant has failed to flowerBut at least I have an abundance of beautiful sweet cherry tomatoes.

Birthday celebrations

During July and August every year its the Cambridge Shakespeare festival .On Geoff’s 60th birthday we went to see the Shakespeare play Taming of the shrew in the gardens of St Johns college.We all enjoyed it so much that this year I thought we should go and see another play.I invited some of our friends [...]

Feeling the burn…

I have not done a long bike ride since I met Geoff, and no biking at all in the last year while Andrew has been using my bike to get to and from work.
Then a few weeks ago Geoff announced that  he was thinking about cycling to his apartment in Les Gets.
The distance is just [...]

Tray Bakes

When the boys were small I used to make a lot of traybakes.They are ideal for large numbers … for parties, bazaars, coffee mornings and school fetes.I purchased the perfect traybake tin 12 X 9 in so it can be made quickly, then simply cut it into squares or bars.My Beloved cake book has a [...]

Another souvenier..

I just fell in love with these silver Inca men necklaces.Eventually I gave in and bought one but I did a bit of haggling and got a good 20% off the asking price.I also got some matching stud Earrings

Souvenirs from Peru.

I brought back many souvenirs, this is just one of them.
We loved all the wonderful bright Peruvian wall hangings.
I could of easily, had hundreds of them, all with different patterns and in all shapes and sizes.
But this is the one that now hangs in my Hall, thanks to Geoff.

Moray and Maras.

During our week in Cusco we did a couple of day treks.
Thinking it would be good training for the Inca Trail.
One of these Treks was to Moray and Maras in the Sacred Valley.
The Moray Inca Ruins were perfectly circular terraces so within each terrace, different things could be planted. It’s just a great sight [...]

Finally….

After passing his theory test first time in November 2007 
My son Andrew has struggled to pass his driving test but today he received this in the

post…..
On his fourth attempt he finally passed his test on July 8th 2009
This was the day I returned from South America so was fantastic welcome home news.
Today he [...]

Fire up your blogging.

For all those that have asked  about ScribeFireScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.
Now that I am getting used to [...]

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