demolision
you’ve got to love that feast for your eyes
saturdays
I like wandering around.
Especially buildings like this.
Especially on a grey day.
this time
sheffield
on our this is england tour. sweet
crumble
bramley apple and yorkshire bramble crumble = treat. ONLY when eaten with custard. ice cream would do only in a custard shortage
chocolate cake
cake 125 g dark chocolate 3 tbsp milk 150 g butter 150 g caster sugar 3 eggs 200 g plain flour 1 tbsp good quality cocoa powder 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda chocolate butter icing 75 g butter 1 tbsp cream 1 tsp vanilla extract 175 g icing sugar 1 tbsp good quality cocoa powder i love brownies but the cost of that much chocolate makes them a rare occasion. this recipe is not as expensive as most chocolate cakes and very yummy. I decorated it with white chocolate buttons, but you could really go to town with plenty of other decoration ideas. tip: you are meant to leave it in for 25 minutes at gas mark 6 but I find less is better (and melt more chocolate into it !!hehe)
ode to the mundane
tasty
These are officially the tastiet carrots I’ve ever had.
Not to mention how pretty they look in a bunch (even when covered in mud!).
home sweet home
i never realised how much i love the colour blue
£2.50, and wall mountable
more ladybird
I bought a story book ‘The Wise Robin’, worth a read
and
‘Birds and how they live’
So i remember reading them when I was a kid, but this is different. I was never aware of the non-fiction categories, never mind the condensed form in which they limit subjects to a few pages. They fascinate me and, of course, amuse.
These few i bought because I am bird mad. Much better illustration than my own, they fall into the drawn category of bird books which are very popular but are often of little accuracy.
(via tea-and-sympathy)
boring postcards
finally purchased the book ‘boring postcards’. in amongst mand other local gems was this beauty
scunthorpe
this is where I’m from
and i kind of like it. its home
i don’t know what date this postcard is but this exact view definately hasn’t changed one bit. apart from the sun shines a bit less these days i find.
