After a trip to John Lewis which proved fruitless, I found this site that has loads of great designs. I haven't ordered from them yet but I will do as soon as I find a tape measure in one of our 'crap' drawers. We all have those, right?
Very possibly the funniest clip of 2011. Just thinking about it makes my shoulders shake.
Since being a small child, Remembrance Sunday is something that my family have always marked by attending our village cenotaph. Both my grandparents were members of the British Legion and I spent many a Wednesday evening latched onto my Nan's leg whilst she played bingo in the broken down hut they called their legion headquarters. The walk home often consisted of a cone of chips shared between two.
I remember swelling with pride watching them both march through the village, my Nan in her best fur coat and my Grandad in his beret carrying the Legion standard flag.
This year was the first in which my 87 year old Grandfather felt that his legs would no longer stay the distance, so instead he read the following out to the larger than normal crowd and laid his wreath.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
There's something about remembering those that gave up so much that never fails to move me.
For my daughter this was the 4th time she's attended the service and my hope is that she will pass this family tradition down through the years.
I really want one of these. Suppose I could buy one for the 4year old and not feel daft about it.
Some time ago @indiaknight was talking about the ultimate recipe for Macaroni Cheese on Twitter. Once I'd stopped dribbling and enquired which cook book she used I went off to buy a copy of The Prawn Cocktail Years.
Whilst this book claims to bring back all the retro recipes from our past, I have to fess up to the fact that I've never stopped cooking the likes of Cottage Pie and Stroganoff so I'm clearly still stuck in the 80's. All that aside, this book is superb, I've cooked around 4 recipes to date and they've gone down great, especially the Dry Kedgeree. The instructions are clear and not too wordy, I'd prefer each page to be accompanied by a picture and the index seems a bit screwed in places but nevertheless you're missing a trick if you haven't got this in your collection. Available from all the usual places.
