Fish and Chips

Do you ever find yourself looking anew at something so commonplace that you always took it for granted?  It happened to me recently. “Let’s go for fish and chips” I said to Tom, my visiting brother from California.   We walked away from our village, strolled up a road by the church and on to a… Continue reading Fish and Chips

Hot Cross Buns — and an Unexpected Visitor

Getting ready Well, it certainly wasn’t what I thought would happen. I had offered to help my daughter Joy with her annual Hot Cross Bun Bash on the Good Friday before Easter. This involved a 6.30 a.m. start making the dough so that it would rise at staged times, enabling preparing, shaping, baking and glazing… Continue reading Hot Cross Buns — and an Unexpected Visitor