Category Archives: food

Another step in the unfatness plan

I can’t decide if Sister 1 is a genius or a nutcase.  I suspect she may be a bit of both. Every other Monday is Big House Day.  This is when Sister 1 goes to Pog Towers and makes it … Continue reading

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a healthy moment in a chocolate fuelled weekend…

I may have overdone the chocolate this weekend. How could I not when my parents gave me a huge egg, and my Sisters turned into feeders by giving me these?! But I imagine I’m not the only one and I … Continue reading

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Just when you thought….

….the 40th celebrations were all over, it turns out you can be instructed to appear at your parents house, having made ‘a bit of an effort’, be met on the main road by a shepherd/ Jesus / who knows (Dad … Continue reading

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A grown up Pog?

Last week a colleague told me that reaching your 40s means you no longer have an excuse not to be a grown up, that everything starts to become more settled and sensible. I can’t think of anything worse, so even though … Continue reading

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Chocolate shaped badness

I am a bad person.  I have done a bad thing. I almost finished the last parts of my Christmas shopping at the weekend, but not before getting my head in a total tangle.  I have quite a few friends … Continue reading

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The Christmas food got me again…

…but in a different way to that soup / Ribena experience. If you’ve been with me a while you’ll know my cooking skills stretch to little more than toast for my dinner.  This time of year is great though – … Continue reading

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Christmas food

It feels like ages ago when I sighed on seeing that Tesco had put out their mince pies, thinking it was far too early…and promptly putting a box of 6 in with my shopping.  Then then repeating the process every week … Continue reading

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Courses and events of all shapes and sizes with the added Pog Factor

Enough has happened in the last two weeks for me to write about 20 posts, but work keeps getting in the way.  Instead, this will be a summary of the highlights / lowlights.  I went on a Zendoodle course.  Overview: … Continue reading

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Dinner and chinchillas

One of the very good things about living on my own is that I never have to consider anyone else when it comes to dinner.  This is also one of the very bad things as most of the time it … Continue reading

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It *was* an emergency…

Sister 2’s boyfriend is really good at baking cakes.  He made one a few weeks ago with caramel loveliness in it, and then admitted it was tinned caramel stuff.  I love it and admitted that I had a tin in … Continue reading

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