Blue monster on a dull day
Caught sight of this beauty in Clifton, Bristol… for years we have visited the city and tried to find the well-known and lovely area of the city and until yesterday it eluded us… but hurrah, we found Clifton!
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Bits and pieces
This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
The Flower of Bristol
I’m sure many people have heard of the Flower of Scotland, but I’m not sure many people apart from Bristol folk have heard of the Flower of Bristol; it is our nearest big city and we have visited it dozens and dozens of times over the years but we didn’t know it had its own […]
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Good cooks always use…
Another advert from Mrs Beeton, the 1912 edition, and if you went shopping today you could still buy Robinson’s barley products, squashes and drinks… and many other ‘new’ lines too! Atora still makes suet, and in fact I have a vegetarian ‘suet’ packet in my cupboard for when I make puddings… not that I do very often, […]
MoreRadio-Active Ærated Waters – for the treatment of gout, rheumatism and nervous afflicitons
Like many people I have several copies of Mrs Beeton; I have my own copy, acquired when I was cooking for myself, I have my mum’s well-used copy which I inherited and I have this old copy from 1912. This is the ‘updated’ version, the original was published in the 1850’s. I’m fascinated by the adverts there […]
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Lois Elsden 