Don't call me Mrs Beeton

I was bored yesterday so himself suggested I make mince pies.

So I did.

Halfway through the preparation I remembered we had thrown away the indented cupcake dish thingy what I had as we were never likely to use it and there was minimal storage at his house.

Okay so now what to do.

Himself suggested we roll out the pastry and cut into squares and tweak the corners.

We don't have a rolling pin.

So I used the jar of lasagne sauce.

I had misunderstood his instructions (note mince pie in top right corner.)

Got the hang of corner tweaking and thought what a clever idea a little pocket to put the mincemeat into.

Experimenty no worky

We are calling them minscuits

and very tasty they are too.

I hereby recommend Minscuits as the future Xmas offering to all and sundry

Old fashioned bed warmer

Okay bring on the next overnight stay I been and bought myself a real old fashioned copper bedwarmer.  I will be putting my firebrick inside it (with all fo' corners knocked off) and possibly making it a little coat as well so I don't burn myself as I will be sleeping with it!  In the summer it can be a wall decoration.

Only £20 from a junk shop (the sort where all the antiques are just piled on top of each other and there is absolutely no room to walk about).  He had several and we managed to access all of them without the whole room tumbling about our ears.  I chose the one most likely to fit said brick.

How do they do it?

I spent last night on the boat and have decided it must be a summer boat.

It was ffffffffffffffffff reezing.

Must put an ecofan on my Xmas list again.

Puss and Boots

Oh tittle

Finally managed to get out and check on the boat.

So I can relax I have wriggled under the tug deck and switched off the stop cock and opened a tap.

However I am too late to save the bath/shower mixer unit.  To be fair that wouldn't have been the tap left on anyway so I imagine the either/or knob would still have blown off.

Anyone know if it is possible to get replacements for these or am I likely to have to replace whole unit?

I will of course have to check all joints when I come to turn water back on. 

Plus I didn't have time to check the calorifier joints but these are fairly well insulated she says hopefully.

No Way

Nanook of the North Obeyed Instruction.

Sofa so good

I wish that this bench was this comfortable in the summer.

This here is my Christmas tree

Isn't it pretty.