Wow, so this is it then. The last official blog post of My Make Do and Mend Year. 365 days, 368 posts, 17.5k tweets (Really? Is that even possible? Have I spent the last year constantly tweeting? Oh yes. Pretty much…) and 3,832 follower of various descriptions. I have to confess to being at a … Continue reading
I’m sat watching the GBBO, and they are doing the Show Stopper Challenge. I had been struggling for inspiration for a title for this post about making a door stop, so the Door Stopper Challenge suddenly struck me as genius! Back in the heady days of summer, when we had that really hot spell, we … Continue reading
Bright and early on Bank Holiday Monday, I ventured back to the wilds of Swindon, to the BBC Radio Wiltshire building to give the listeners of Mark O’Donell’s Mid Morning Show my final analysis on my Make Do and Mend Year. I have been in regularly during the course of the year, and wanted to … Continue reading
I bought a top about 10 years ago, while I was at uni in London. And it has served me very well. It was only cheap ( forgive me, it was pre MDAM,and my enlightenment) but does go to show that cheap clothes don’t have to be disposable. I had however, recently retired it as … Continue reading
These aren’t the delicate, coloured macaroons that you see on the Great British Bake Off, and have recently become quite trendy again, but instead they are easy peasy, fat free morsels of deliciousness. They are also an excellent way of using up egg whites if you have had enough of meringues. This is what you … Continue reading
Well, actually it is. I found this old cricket card game in charity shop shop at the weekend, and couldn’t resist. I have lots of cricket fans in my family, so thought that they would make great cards, but hubby thinks we should do “something more” with them, but has failed to come up with … Continue reading
I posted yesterday about hubby’s trousers with the large ink stain. They are his work trousers and he was happily wandering around with a biro in his pocket, and ended up with a large blue stain on his trousers, and his leg. We had one of those dirt devil thing s lurking in the utility … Continue reading
OK, so after 360 blog posts, I have run out of inspiration. I have lots of things I would like to tell you about, but have not yet done anything towards. Like Hubby’s trousers with the large biro stain on that I can’t get out and so am planning to dye. Like BigSmall’s trousers that … Continue reading
…added beetroot! These brownies are delicious, really moist, and very yummy. And they have beetroot in them, so they are a funny browny purple colour. You would be forgiven for thinking that the addition of beetroot would make these brownies healthier than regular brownies. It may well, by the addition of some extra fibre and … Continue reading
I made tomato ketchup. It was not a resounding success. An afternoon of chopping and simmering and stirring. A seemingly vast amount of veg. And one, yes ONE, miserable little pot of not that great tasting ketchup. I used a recipe from the my current favourite cook book, Hungry? from the good folk at Innocent … Continue reading
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