Thursday, November 23, 2006

Pumpkin Soup











Big wedge of pumpkin

chop into bits and bake in oven until sqidgy

scrape flesh away

chop up a bit

sweat some red onion

chuck in pumpkin

pour in boiling water

crumble in 3 veggie stock cubes

stir

whizz with whizzer until consistency you like

season to taste

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

How to win Monopoly



Here's one of our games of Monopoly we played on holiday...as you can see I have a hotel on Park Lane.
I soooo whooped Nicked arse!

Here's me looking like a very happy bunny.
It is impossible to be unhappy in south west France...

the £1.50 bottles of wine maaaaaay have helped slightly!!!

Focus

What is my problem?
What is it with me?
Is there really a problem at all?

I have too many ideas, too many things I want to do and not enough time in the day or even in one hundred years to do them all.
Here's just a few things I would love to do but probably never will as you can only have one career at a time....

To start up my very own greetings card company. Design and publish fab cards. I have already designed 4 ranges, sent off for envelope and board samples, named the company...no time.

I want to make things, knit bags and flowers and toys and egg cosies, scarves and sock and hats. But I don't really know how to knit.

I want my allotment to be the best allotment up there with row upon row of healthy veggies. But I haven't the time to devote to it,, so it's full of weeds. I am yet to grow a successful carrot. I am very good at growing pumpkins though.

I want to write more. I have had several ideas for junior fiction but they never get past 5 chapters.

I want to bake. I want to welcome Nick home from work with a batch of freshly baked cookies. I want a nice kitchen to do it in. Not a fitted one from MFI you understand, but a homely, warm kitchen with nice lighting. I want to wear a full 50's skirt while I'm baking with lots of petticoats...and a pinny. I do not own a pinny.

I want to move to France ( THIS WILL HAPPEN). I want to open a little shop in Brantome and call it Chez Fai, where I'd sell all things faery, from dolls to books. I would deck the place with fairy lights. I would paint the facade lilac. I would have a studio in the little room upstairs where I would work on my children's picture books. I would have a cat who lived in the shop...I would call him....hmmmm...what would I call him....Mabinogion...or Gobolino....or Dave...?

I am in no way complaining. I'm a happy bunny doing my children's books, but I'm never totally content. I'm very restless.
Maybe I should just Jack everything in a become a river gypsy...

I still don't feel as though I have really ACHIEVED anything yet. I know I've had books published...but I've NEVER seen them in a bookshop. I feel there's more in me than I'm getting out.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Perigord Pumpkin Press

I have started up a new blog to record our journey to France....

see link on the right ----->

cooooo-eeeeee!

I'm back!

I feel very guilty for not blogging in so long!
I've just been so busy with work and we had a quick break in France (see Perigord Pumpkin Press)

Erica
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