A new beginning

After agonising over a new title and then fiddling and farting around for hours (and I mean hours!) doing the header - ta da - here it is....My new blog!

It was sad to let go of "Going Places", but that blog was all about our UK adventure and that is well and truly over (sigh). Still, the urge to keep taking pictures and recording what we get up to remains.  There may not be the exciting weekend visits to castles, or school holiday jaunts to Spain, but I think I'll still manage to find stuff to post about.

Like this for example - making Christmas puddings with Mum...

First

• you grab an antique recipe (pounds and ounces, what the?!?), then 
• you gather all of your supplies (noting not one but TWO bottles of brandy), next 
• you rope in some willing helpers, and lastly 
• you take a bunch of pictures of everyone suitably attired in their aprons :)

Mum made the aprons J

And then it was weighing, a bit more weighing, mixing, pinching, grating, whisking and then an emergency bike dash to the shops for more suet and finally - wha la - Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt - 4 lovely Christmas puddings completo!

Now just pop my two on the stove to boil for 7 (YES 7!!) hours.  Will let you know how these little beauties taste on Christmas day (laced with more Brandy of course J)

Note - The local shops didn't have suet, so used butter instead.