Lois Elsden
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Home grown!
The garden is doing brilliantly this year and here is a nice little salad I put together, all home-grown except the feta cheese! Spinach, mint, dill, peas, purple mange-tout, baby broad-beans, marjoram and dressed with sea salt and coarse ground black pepper and chilli flakes, strawberries and raspberries to finish… the taste of summer!
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A Maverick hanging out in a bar? Really? Yes really!!!!! I wish The Mavs really were behind the bar in The Dolphin!
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A pint of Doom, please!
As well as the estimable otter Ale, the Dolphin, our local pub, also serves a well-kept brew from Sharp’s brewery, Doom Bar. It sounds a wonderful name, doesn’t it, redolent of many old tales, myths and legends. It gives a little shiver every time I ask for ‘A pint of Doom, please’ expecting something almost […]
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The shaggy winged sea-moth
I actually don’t know what this moth is. It was sitting on our doorstep while we were on holiday by the sea in Yorkshire. It was grey as you can see, was about 2-3 inches across and about one to one and a half inches long, it had shaggy wings but whether that was because […]
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