Category: Food & Drink
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How to Make Hot Mars Bar Vodka
IT’S SNOWING! Well, it was snowing at the weekend and the newspapers are gleefully reporting weeks of travel chaos and arctic temperatures. When it snows there’s really nothing for it but to hunker down under a blanket with some nice warming booze. I mentioned Hot Mars Bar Vodka over the weekend on Facebook and Twitter…
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An Excuse to Throw a Tea Party for Marie Curie
Marie Curie Cancer Care have very helpfully provided you with an excuse to throw a vintage tea party. Isn’t that nice of them? From this Sunday the 12th June, through till 12th July you can register to hold a tea party on the Blooming Great Tea Party website and it’ll all be in aid of…
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Any Excuse – Vintage Sweets
Yum, yum, yum…. For my birthday I got a packet of my favourite sweets in the world. I don’t have a big sweet tooth, but these are delicious, so today I’m going to tell you all about them, as if you haven’t tried them you really should. Here’s the last one, seconds before I ate…
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Retro Chick Cooks: Cranberry & Mulled Wine Stew
I promised I was going to try and do some recipe and food posts this year, and here we are, my first try! I’m starting off with a recipe that’s actually my very own. I love stews, chillis and casseroles in winter, they’re comforting, warming, and actually pretty healthy being stuffed with as many vegetables…
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Have a Happy Halloween!
To ease you into the weekend here’s short video I took of the String Quartet at the Norwich Beer Festival yesterday. I only had my iPhone, so it’s not the most amazing, but keep your eyes peeled for a man balancing a balloon on his nose at about a minute in. It also ends with…
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The Changing Face of the Babycham Deer
I love Babycham glasses and that iconic Babycham Deer. I always buy Babycham glasses whenever I see them. I started picking them up about a year ago and I now have 6, from a variety of decades. I found it quite hard to find pictures of the changing face of the Babycham deer all in…
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Hidden Gems – Bobby Jo's 50s Diner in Southend
I really love it when you unexpectedly find fantastic places, but last time I posted about one of my hidden gems it proved unexpectedly controversial and resulted in me having to close the comments on the post. This time round I discovered Bobby Jo’s 50s Diner on a trip to Southend on Sea. Hopefully it…
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Sponsor Spotlight: The Perfect Afternoon Tea
Afternoon tea. That’s a very British institution. Apparently introduced to England by the seventh Duchess of Bedford, in the year 1840 it involves Tea served in delicate china, cakes, maybe scones with cream and jam and tiny sandwiches arranged on stacked plates. It’s all very important to get right, or it’s just not afternoon tea.…
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Perfect Picnics
As the weather warms up and the chilly days of the last few months (hopefully) become a distant memory, my thoughts turn to outdoor pursuits. One of the advantages of Summer is you don’t have to spend a fortune to keep yourself entertained and have a wonderful day out. This weekend we packed up our…