Grandma's Recipes

I needed to make some goodies to take away to Wales, for everyone to share, so I thought I would use Grandma's recipes. It was her method for the shortbread, which is delicious, plus her pastry recipe for the jam tarts. (That is not in her book, but I have always used her method). I also made a banana cake, but I didn't want to cut it before we leave. It smells delicious!

Warhol Dove

I saw this pure white dove in the garden and snapped it through the window - it was a little out of focus, so I played around with the colours!

A productive day

This picture shows the pond at its next stage - the first two courses of bricks have been laid ready for the decorative 'anti-Bramble' wall to be put on top. That's only another 21 courses to go then Dad! This picture also shows the view of some of the windows I cleaned today - you can see my reflection they are so shiny. I did the windows at the front of the house and cleaned the inside of the car thoroughly too! Oh and I mowed the lawns and dug my vegetable patch over. And filled up all the bird feeders. Yesterday, I wire-brushed and painted the white table and chairs seen here. I love the Easter holidays! So productive!

Pond

Nigel and I are just in the process of building/creating a pond - clearly Bram is looking forward to it being filled with water. She has been sitting in it at every opportunity, eyeing up the deeper bit where the 'stagnant' part may be! Luckily, it won't be stagnant and she won't be able to easily get over the raised brick walls we are going to build round it!

Neighbours

Now that the gap has been filled with a 6ft fence, the neighbours have to peer through this little space above the old fence when they want to see what we are up to!

12 hours of fun!

Yes, the day arrived - a long day of catering for 120 guests for the wedding breakfast, followed by the evening buffet. We had fun but we are all aching now!

Some of the team!

Wedding

We went up to the hall to get everything ready for the catering for Holly and John's wedding tomorrow - there was a team of people decorating the hall, including Holly, who was very pleased with the result. We arrived back home late because we went for a pub meal with John and Gill after we had set up.