Dust Pan and Brush

Now that the house has been rejigged I am trying to use the stuff that Mum squirrelled away for a better time.

This is one of several dust pan sets she owned. It’s Italian, and i think specifically for tidying up pasta making. — that was the kind of thing she did, come back from a continental holiday with a suitcase full of domestic fripperies.

Well its not hidden in a draw now – its ready waiting to sweep the crumbs off my shiny new counter. The one thing i splurged money on.

MER

Uncategorised

I got given a carving pumpkin. So i carved it

That degree in engineering was useful for something…

This year I finally succumbed to an ikea pepparkaka hus. Of course it was never going to be sufficient to cover the thing with smarties so I got some extra gingerbread dough for home improvements. Here’s the finished home.

Holly Cottage

Below you can follow the construction which satisfied my inner Engineer and QS.

Hodge Podge – 3

As I indicated last week I have taken up bread making; if you count three loaves in as many weeks as taking up. I was sick of buying seemingly nice loaves from the shops and discovering them to be boring plastic crap. My mum used to make eight pound loaves each week. I think that started because of the bread strike sometimes in the seventies. She made quite dense brown loaves, everyone’s sandwiches used to be much larger than mine.