Wave cushions

 Finally finished. These were for the seats outside for summer - whoops, summer has been and gone. Not a long project but a very long one when it's only picked up now and again. Finished now though.

Some cushions have been in use longer than others and have had their fair share of washing. All are wavy patterns but differ in the number of colours in each stripe. The aim was 1 stripe, 2 stripes, 3 stripes and random stripes.

I made them envelope cushions so they could be taken off and washed so there were 78 strips for each cushion.

Here they are all together, the 2 on the right hand side have had more use.

Give them a wave.

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Question of more or less

 Which is correct?

The more you do, the less you have to do.

or

The more you do, the more there is to do.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 biscuits

Easy peasy biscuit recipe here and all I need to remember it is 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

5 ounces of flour

4 ounces of butter

3 ounces of coconut flakes*

2 ounces of sugar and

1 egg

Cream the butter and sugar, stir in the egg and add the rest of the ingredients.

Roll out some balls and then ..

flatten them!

Bake in a moderate oven until cooked - about 15 to 20 minutes.

Instead of coconut other flavours could be added - choc chips, ground almonds, currants or vanilla or lemon extract (a teaspoon not 3 ounces!) Another variation is to use brown instead of white sugar.

You may notice that one biscuit is missing. You would be quite correct.

Naughty me.

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Rock on

 Like Jackie my pear tree has done nothing or just dropped all its pears for years but this year we had a crop. We left them on the tree for ages but they stayed rock hard. Having looked up rock hard pears we gathered that they had to be 

*brought indoors for a bit to ripen - nope!

*put with bananas which will help to ripen them - nope!

It's getting colder so I decided the best thing I can do is poach them in water as the insides were starting to get brown. Yes, they softened and now we have a way of eating through them. I've just picked another batch and will poach them and store them in the freezer.

Where there's a will there's a way.

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Satiated

I have eaten my way through a strawberry patch, 50 bunches of grapes, a row of mangetout, 2 courgette plants, spring onions, cucumbers and French beans. I have yet to finish the tomatoes both inside the greenhouse and out, 

the runner beans (I've kept up with eating them beautifully.),

the apples (only eaten one - not ready!), the plums (just found them - all 8 of them!),

the kohl rabi (one left) and the pepper (only the one!)

Most of the greenhouse tomatoes have been cut back or pulled out as the tomatoes were eaten and the string saved for next year. I 'get knotted' each year in order to save the planet a little.

Only a little of the garden left to cut back for the winter. Well fed and job well done.

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PS Thank you DD for helping out with the eating of the tomatoes and cucumbers - couldn't have done it without you.

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Solved

1. I shall sort out the edges by leaving a note in my diary which will say:-

DO THE EDGES TODAY.

Solved. Tick.

2. It came to me in the middle the night - it's the hanger that was at the top of some canvas hanging drawers that I had hanging in the wardrobe. When I got rid of the canvas I kept the hanger in case it would come in useful in the future.

IT DIDN'T!

Solved. Tick.

I rest easy. 

xx 

PS Where have my labels gone in this new Blogger? They are not at the side, nor are they listed. Do I have to type them in again? Oh no, another mystery.

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Mysteries

 1. Every week I hoover the hall and stairs and every week I say that next week I'll do the edges (with the 'get in the corners' 'attachment). Next week never comes!

2. I found this hanger in my wardrobe. Don't know where it came from or how it came to be there. Must have picked it up from somewhere. But what is it for? It looks like a giant safety pin with a hook to hang it up and is the length of an ordinary hanger.

Stay safe.

xx