From the top down
A Moomin tribute
Carol Ann Duffy from a friend to widen my horizons
Linda Grant bought because I enjoyed "The Clothes on Their Backs"
Lush architectural yumminess, a birthday present from boychild. (He really can take a hint that boy !
Ooyay - one of those ones where you play on Amazon and think "Oh yes, why not ?"
The two hardbacks were birthday presents from my Mother. Now I understand the Paxman, good choice. But the WI book ? The paranoia kicked in there and I'm afraid I took it as a subliminal criticism of my domesticity (or lack of it). Last year she gave me "Mrs Beeton" but obviously, as I still have no staff, she feels I need the "D.I.Y" option. Oh well, off to find my pinny.
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Please don't let your mother anywhere near my next post if, in the light of her choice of hardbacks, culinary success has an equally high priority as domesticity!
I only mention this as I'll be revealing, for all to judge, the results of my first-ever attempt at hot X buns this weekend using recipes described by esteemed fellow bloggers.
And as I've warned others, the pix won't be a pretty sight nor for the faint-hearted. Or mothers...
Perhaps best if I stick to BRAIN food in future...
Nora
P.S.Hope you like the Paxman as much as I did! Always interesting & provocative.
Now cooking I can do - greed is a great help, but general housework defeats me, I subscribe fully to the neater heap system and if it needs ironing "there's the iron"
Looking forward to HotX buns
Housework is something you should hire a chimpanzee to do. A full-bodied female should have better things to do with her time.
Sod the housework, enjoy the books,
GG
GB - Oh I do, believe me, even if it's doing nothing. Loathe housework with a passion and as long as no one dies of a notifiable disease things must be OK ? As far as hiring primate staff is concerned I always thought spidermonkeys would be better - lower wages and they can reach the cobwebs more easily ?
Waving - Indeed, escape through books, anything truly important will still be there later !
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