Garden Flowers

Life has got in the way of being creative over the past couple of days ....

.....  .... and today I was having trouble walking after a visit to the chiropodist (very unusual, as I normally walk on air afterwards) so I sat quietly and put together a couple of pages of pictures of flowers in the garden that I had taken over the past few days.

70 Years Ago today

In the garden VE Day 1945

70 years ago it was VE Day and I was there, albeit a babe in arms.  My Dad and some pals wre given a 48 hours pass to join in the celebrations - so the all ended up at our house - sleeping on the floor.

My mum told me that they joined the throngs in the Mall dancing their way up to Buckingham Palace, chanting for the King and Queen to come out onto the balcony, which I gather they did a lot of times!  I was on my parents shoulders.

Apparently the next morning, they all awoke to discover a Belisha Beacon in the front garden - and nobody knew how it got there - at least nobody was telling if they knew!  It has been a standing joke and family story since then.

The baby in the photo is me with Dad and his REME pals.

Memory page produced in CAP2

Memory Page Challenge

Over on Facebook we had a challenge this month for some memory scrap book pages.  I had a bit of fun sorting out a few old photos for this.


They are all fairly self explanatory.  I hope a couple give you a little giggle

 

Recipe Pages

I have been asked for some of my recipes, so I decided to make some scrapbook pages for them, using Craft Artist Platinum.   Here are the first two:   They are 8" x 8" pages.

The recipe for the pie is a guide.  The 1001 was coined by my daughter's godmother who used to make 1001 stew (You never knew what was in it!).   This is a very rough guide.  If I have left-over baked beans, tinned tomatoes, or sweetcorn in the fridge, I chuck those in as well.  So you could quite easily add baked beans to the recipe anyway if you so fancy.

I can remember in my twenties, that we often used to visit a local pub near Gatwick Airport at lunch times, and they used to make the most fantastic pie and beans.  I must admit that this recipe is very reminiscent of the pie they used to serve. (From memory I think we used to served about 1/3rd of a piece of pie as a portion, accompanied by a very large spoonful of baked beans!)

As the title implies, this is a recipe based on the bread pudding my Nan used to make, and then my mum, and now my daughter makes it!   It is in ounces as that is what I have grown up with and still prefer to work in compared to grams.  I must confess that I don't always way the ingredients - just throw in what I think!

Those that have tried mine, or made it themselves, have all said that the taste is the same as the bread pudding their Gran's used to make.  So that is sufficient compliment for me.

I think there will be a few more recipe pages in the pipeline, so watch this space!