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So I think most people associate France with pancakes, crêpes or galettes. Galettes are very much associated with Brittany and are made with Buckwheat or sarrasin flour, which is gluten free. Crêpes tend to be made with farine de froment, wheat flour, which I can’t eat. Today being Shrove Tuesday I assumed that the FrenchContinue reading “Shrove Tuesday, Pancake day and Mardi Gras”

I didn’t want to leave on Friday, not because I didn’t want to be home, because I certainly did. But because I didn’t want to leave my children. It was quite a wrench. Though I recognize that the elder has a busy life. He works full-time and has an active social life too, so evenContinue reading “On being home”

Not quite sitting at the railway station! However I have reached the ferry port in Portsmouth. I stopped off in Marlborough to visit a specific shop. I was given a Seasalt voucher for Christmas, well actually I got it last Sunday, so today was my only opportunity to visit one of their shops. I wentContinue reading “Homeward bound”

As many of you will know I practically live in my poncho. I wear it much of the time. I also use it as an advert for what I do. Yesterday evening my younger son sent me a message. Clearly I had forgotten the poncho. It seems that Remus had found it and decided thatContinue reading “Oh no!”

Today will be a very short blog. My eldest and I have spent the day working on the flat. He says that I bit off more than I can chew! The changing of the tap was what threw our schedule out. It has been a nightmare and we hope it won’t leak – too much.Continue reading “Flooring, taps and ladders”

Over the last few days I have had the opportunity to catch up with a number of friends that I haven’t seen for the last few years. It has been great. Strangely enough soup has been a topic of conversation almost every time. I am a soup fan and am now off to try aContinue reading “Friends, soup and driving”

On Thursday evening my sister-in-law had asked whether I had any ideas of what she could do with the Jerusalem artichokes that had arrived in her veg box that week. I suggested roasting them with other vegetables or putting them in a stew or a casserole. On Friday morning my she went off early toContinue reading “Just a Jerusalem artichoke”

Yesterday whilst I was driving along the M54,the M6 and the M5, there were regular high wind warnings for today. So often the Met office gets these things wrong. But not on this occasion. It has been awful. From the small hours it was possible to hear the wind blowing. It would seem that allContinue reading “They weren’t wrong!”

This morning I waved goodbye to Wales and set off to Devon. I was very sorry to say goodbye to my friends. I am hoping that they will visit a little later in the year. My first stop was Birmingham. I needed to collect some books which I am delivering over the weekend. It wasContinue reading “Driving, driving and more driving!”

There was an incredible storm last night. At one point in the night I was awake listening to it. This morning it was as though it hadn’t happened. Just as we were going out there was an amazing rainbow. One of the things that my friend and I always liked to do was to mooch.Continue reading “A day out”